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Class  Book 

Accession  No. 


LIBRARY 


MEMORIAL  ADDRESSES 


AND  CHARACTER 


WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS, 


A  REPRESENTATIVE  FROM  OHIO, 


DELIVERED    IN   THE 


HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  AND  IN  THE  SENATE, 


FIFTY-THIRD  CONGRESS,  FIRST  SESSION. 


PUBLISHED    BY   ORDER   OF   CONGRESS. 


WASHINGTON: 

GOVERNMENT     PRINTING    OFFICE. 

1895. 


Resolved  by  the  House  of  Representatives  (the  Senate  concurring*),  That  there 
be  printed  of  the  eulogies  delivered  in  Congress  upon  the  Hon.  William 
H.  Enochs,  late  a  Representative  from  the  State  of  Ohio,  8,000  copies,  of 
which  number  2,000  copies  shall  be  delivered  to  the  Senators  and  Repre 
sentatives  of  the  State  of  Ohio,  which  shall  include  50  copies  to  be  bound 
in  full  morocco  to  be  delivered  to  the  family  01  the  deceased,  and,  of  the 
remaining,  2,000  shall  be  for  the  use  of  the  Senate  and  4.000  for  the  use 
of  the  House  of  Representatives,  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is 
directed  to  have  engraved  and  printed  a  portrait  of  the  said  William  H. 
Enochs,  to  accompany  the  said  eulogies. 

Agreed  to  in  the  House  of  Representatives  April  18,  1894.     Agreed  to 
in  the  Senate  April  20,  1894. 
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CONTENTS. 


Announcement  of  death :  Page. 

In  the  House  of  ^Representatives 5 

In  the  Senate 52 

Address  of  Mr.  Brice 57 

Mr.  Bundy 48 

Mr.  Grosvenor 8 

Mr.  Hare 27 

Mr.  Henderson,  of  Illinois 25 

Mr.  McKaig 35 

Mr.  North-way 44 

Mr.  Sherman 54 

Mr.  Warner 32 

Mr.  Wilson,  of  Ohio 40 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES. 


ANNOUNCEMENT    OF    DEATH. 

AUGUST  7,  1893. 

Mr.  GROSVENOR.  Mr.  Speaker,  the  painful  duty  devolves 
upon  me  to  announce  to  the  House  of  Representatives  the 
death  of  my  distinguished  colleague,  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS, 
a  Representative  from  the  State  of  Ohio,  who  died  at  his 
home  in  the  city  of  Ironton,  Ohio,  in  the  early  morning  of 
July  13  last. 

I  shall  not  detain  the  House  at  this  time  with  any  remarks 
upon  his  memory.  His  death  came  to  us  all  with  the  sudden 
ness  and  awfulness  of  a  thunderbolt;  and  his  colleagues  upon 
this  floor  deeply  lament  his  untimely  death.  Death  came  to 
him  without  a  shadoAv  of  warning;  and  the  news  of  the 
calamity  fell  with  terrible  force  upon  his  family,  his  large 
number  of  personal  friends,  and  the  constituency  he  so  well 
represented  on  this  floor. 

At  some  future  time  I  shall  ask  the  House  to  devote  some 
time  to  the  consideration  of  this  sad  event,  and  for  the  pres 
ent  I  offer  the  resolutions  which  I  send  to  the  desk. 

The  Clerk  read  as  follows : 

Resolved,  That  the  House  has  heard  with  sincere  regret  the  announce 
ment  of  the  death  of  Hon.  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS,  late  a  Representative  of 
the  State  of  Ohio. 

Resolved,  That  the  business  of  the  House  he  suspended,  in  order  that  the 
puhlic  services  and  private  character  of  the  deceased  he  thoroughly 

commemorated. 

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6  Announcement  of  death. 

Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  be  directed 
to  communicate  these  resolutions  to  the  Senate,  and  send  a  duly  attested 
copy  to  the  widow  of  the  deceased. 

The  SPEAKER.  As  the  Chair  understands,  these  resolutions 
are  offered  that  they  may  lie  over  for  action  hereafter. 

Mr.  GROSVENOR.  That  is  the  purpose.  And  now,  Mr. 
Speaker,  as  a  further  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the 
deceased  Member,  I  move  that  the  House  do  now  adjourn. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to;  and  accordingly  (at  three  o'clock 
and  thirty-one  minutes  p.  in.)  the  House  adjourned. 


EULOGIES. 

MARCH  17,  1894. 

The  SPEAKER  pro  tern  pore  (Mr.  OUTHWAITE).  The  Clerk 
will  report  the  special  order. 
The  Clerk  read  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  Saturday,  the  17th  day  of  March,  from  two  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon,  be  set  apart  for  the  purpose  of  paying  eulogies  to  the  late  Hon. 
W.  H.  ENOCHS. 

Mr.  GROSVENOR.  I  call  for  the  reading  of  the  resolutions. 
The  Clerk  read  as  follows : 

Resolved,  That  the  House  has  heard  with  sincere  regret  the  announce 
ment  of  the  death  of  Hon.  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS,  late  a  Representative 
from  the  State  of  Ohio. 

Resolved,  That  the  business  of  the  House  be  suspended,  in  order  that  the 
public  services  and  private  character  of  the  deceased  be  thoroughly  com 
memorated. 

Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  be  directed  to 
communicate  these  resolutions  to  the  Senate,  and  send  a  duly  attested 
copy  to  the  widow  of  the  deceased. 

Resolved,  That  at  the  conclusion  of  these  services  the  House,  as  a 
further  mark  of  respect,  do  adjourn. 

The  SPEAKER  pro  tempore.      The  question  is  on  the  adop 
tion  of  the  resolutions. 
The  resolutions  were  agreed  to. 


Address  of  Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Ohio,  on  the 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  GROSVENOR,  OF  OHIO. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS  was  born  in  Xoble 
County,  Ohio,  March  29,  1842,  and  died  in  tbe  city  of  Ironton, 
bis  home,  on  Thursday  morning,  the  13th  day  of  July,  1893. 

Of  his  parents  I  knew  but  little,  and  that  only  by  common 
report.  They  were  people  in  moderate  or  possibly  poor  cir 
cumstances,  and  the  boy  was  compelled  to  work  on  the  farm 
in  aid  of  his  father  and  to  secure  a  living  for  himself.  The 
father  and  mother  of  ENOCHS  are  said  to  have  been  persons 
possessing  more  than  ordinary  strength  of  character.  They 
were  of  pious  minds  and  very  industrious  and  upright  people. 

Young  ENOCHS  made  good  headway  in  the  schools  which 
he  attended,  being  for  the  early  years  of  his  student  life  sim 
ply  the  common  schools  of  Lawrence  County,  Ohio,  to  which 
section  his  parents  had  removed.  He  taught  school,  and  with 
the  proceeds  of  that  employment  attended  the  Ohio  Univer 
sity  at  Athens,  at  my  home.  The  impression  he  made  upon 
the  people  of  niy  town  and  upon  the  faculty  of  the  college 
was  that  ENOCHS  was  a  handsome,  well-behaved,  ambitious 
young  man  with  country  manners  and  country  tendencies. 
His  deportment  as  a  student  was  such  as  to  challenge  the  ap 
proval  of  the  professors,  and  he  made  an  impression  upon  the 
people  of  the  town  which  made  them  ever  afterwards  his 
friends. 

It  can  hardly  be  said  of  him  that  he  manifested  distinguish 
ing  traits  of  character,  but  he  did  manifest  satisfactory  traits 
of  character.  He  was  manly,  upright,  industrious,  coura 
geous,  and  conformed  to  the  rules  of  the  college  and  the  cus 
toms  of  the  town  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  his  friends. 

Young  ENOCHS  was  a  student  at  the  Ohio  University  in 
the  spring  of  1861,  when  the  war  broke  out.  In  giving  his 


Life  and  Character  of  William  //.  Enochs.  9 

early  experience  lie  was  in  the  habit  of  saying  that  when 
the  war  began  he  followed  the  first  fife  and  drum  that  came 
along.  The  notes  of  that  fife  and  drum  are  still  sounding  in 
my  memory.  It  was  on  the  evening  of  the  Sunday  following 
the  attack  upon  Fort  Sumter  that  the  first  meeting  to  express 
the  opinion  of  that  college  town  upon  the  great  subject  of 
rebellion  and  war  was  held  in  the  town  of  Athens,  and  young 
ENOCHS  was  there.  I  still  remember  the  glow  on  his  face 
and  the  light  in  his  eye  as  the  news  from  Washington  was 
read  and  resohitious  to  contribute  men  and  money  were 
adopted. 

Yery  shortly  afterwards  he  enlisted  in  the  Twenty- second 
Ohio  Volunteers  for  three  months.  That  regiment,  like  many 
others  from  Ohio,  was  organized  under  the  Seward  theory  of  a 
ninety-days'  termination  of  the  war,  but  long  before  the  end  of 
the  ninety  days  it  was  plainly  visible  to  the  intelligent  eye  that 
we  had  embarked  in  a  war  of  years,  and  the  young  soldier 
reeulisted  at  Ceredo,  W.  Va.,  in  the  Fifth  West  Virginia  Vol 
unteers,  in  Company  K. 

He  had  seen  three  months'  service.  He  was  finely  formed 
and  a  soldierly  looking  young  man,  and  it  has  been  well  said 
of  him  that  he  was  a  boy  in  blue  all  over. 

As  a  soldier  he  was  a  dashing  soldier.  I  never  heard  that 
he  made  plans  of  action,  but  I  have  heard  that  he  always 
acted.  He  became  a  lieutenant  in  December,  1861,  and  on 
April  19, 18G2,  he  was  promoted  to  captain  of  Company  E,  and 
on  August  17,  1863,  he  became  lieutenant-colonel,  which  rank 
he  held  until  December,  19,  1864,  when  he  was  promoted  to 
colonel  of  the  First  West  Virginia  Kegimeut,  into  which  the 
Fifth  and  Ninth  had  been  consolidated.  This  position  he 
held  until  the  close  of  the  war,  and  after  the  war  Colonel 
ENOCHS  was  brevetted  brigadier-general  in  honor  of  his  hon 
orable  services  on  the  field. 


10  Address  of  Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

The  regiments  with  which  General  ENOCHS  served  per 
formed  substantial  and  valuable  military  services.  They  were 
in  the  prominent  battles  of  Cross  Keys,  Bull  linn,  Winches 
ter,  Opequon,  Cloud  Mountain,  Lyuchburg,  Cedar  Creek,  and 
Fisher  Hill. 

I  think  it  can  be  said  of  him  as  a  soldier  that  he  was  a  good 
tighter.  With  all  the  vicissitudes  of  politics  and  personal 
matters  I  never  heard  a  word  of  detraction  in  regard  to  the 
military  record  of  this  gallant  man.  His  characteristics  as  a 
soldier,  in  addition  to  those  to  which  1  have  already  alluded, 
was  a  special  adaptation  to  skirmish  fighting.  He  had  a  way 
of  getting  a  little  farther  out  than  the  average  man  on  the 
skirmish  line  and  ascertaining  a  little  more  about  the  enemy's 
position  than  the  average  man. 

He  was  an  uneducated,  untrained,  aud  undisciplined  Phil 
Sheridan.  He  had  all  the  ardor  of  that  great  leader,  all  the 
push,  all  the  courage,  all  the  patriotic  devotion.  He  was  lack 
ing,  of  course,  as  we  all  were,  in  skill,  in  training,  and  in  theories. 

The  soldier  of  18G1  was  the  ideal  soldier  of  the  war.  On 
more  than  one  occasion  I  have  done,  in  my  way,  and  with  my 
ability,  full  justice  to  the  men  of  all  ranks  and  all  terms  of 
service  who  did  what  they  could  to  put  down  the  rebellion,  and 
I  have  not  drawn  lines  of  demarcation  between  the  three-years 
man  and  the  four-years  man  and  any  other  man  who  did  hon 
orable  service.  But,  after  all,  there  is  to  my  mind  a  special 
halo  around  the  men  of  18(51.  There  is  something  in  the  men 
who  heard  the  gun  of  Fort  Sumter  in  all  its  enormous  rever 
berations  and  appreciated  in  some  measure  the  terrible  im 
portance  of  that  awful  shock,  and  hastened  with  all  proper 
speed  and  promptness,  anxious  to  accept  the  gage  of  war  and 
meet  the  shock  of  battle. 

It  was  the  soldier  of  1861  who  did  not  measure  consequences 
or  weigh  results.  His  country  was  assailed  and  he  knew  it, 
and  that  was  all  he  wanted  to  know.  He  did  not  inquire  the 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  1 1 

rate  of  compensation  or  the  amount  of  pension  he  was  to 
receive.  He  never  thought  of  it.  He  looked  about  him  to 
make  some  arrangements  for  those  who  depended  upon  him, 
shouldered  his  musket  as  the  men  of  Lexington  and  Concord 
shouldered  theirs,  and  marched  with  a  purpose  and  determina 
tion  as  heroic  as  was  the  sacrifices  of  the  men  at  Valley  Forge 
and  "Xorktown. 

Such  a  man  was  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS.  Full  honor  for  serv 
ices  in  the  field  will  always  be  awarded  his  memory  by  his 
comrades  of  the  war  and  by  the  people  who  knew  him. 

He  studied  law  after  the  war,  and  graduated  at  the  Cincin 
nati  Law  School  in  I860.  He  began  the  practice  of  law  in 
West  Virginia,  but  after  about  a  year  he  removed  to  Iroutou, 
where  he  lived  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

In  the  latter  years  of  his  law  practice  he  devoted  much  time 
to  railroad  practice,  and  in  that  connection  was  an  industrious, 
energetic,  enterprising,  and  ambitious  lawyer. 

He  was  elected  to  the  legislature  of  Ohio  in  1869  and  served 
a  single  term  and  voluntarily  withdrew  from  politics  for  the 
time  being. 

As  a  lawyer  little  need  be  said  beyond  the  fact  that  he  was 
industrious,  persevering,  and  ambitious.  He  stood  well  at  the 
bar,  and  in  the  lines  of  his  profession  which  he  pursued  he 
was  successful.  As  a  citizen  he  was  an  aggressive  friend  of 
Irouton  and  the  section  in  which  he  lived. 

He  had  intelligent  views  on  business  affairs,  and  as  he  had 
been  in  the  war  so  he  was  in  peace — on  the  skirmish  line  of 
enterprise  and  business  aggression. 

He  was  a  candidate  for  Congress  in  1888,  but  failed  to  receive 
the  nomination ;  but  in  1890,  after  one  of  the  most  exciting 
struggles  ever  known  in  that  section  of  Ohio,  he  was  nomi 
nated  for  Congressman.  The  district  had  been  newly  formed. 
It  consisted  of  the  counties  of  Athens  and  Meigs,  Gallia,  Law 
rence,  and  Scioto.  Three  of  the  counties  had  come  from  the 


1 2  Address  of  Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

old  Eleventh  district  and  two  from  the  Fifteenth  district,  and 
had  been  thrown  together  in  the  new  Twelfth  district. 

As  thus  constituted,  the  new  district  had  two  members  of 
Congress,  both  of  whom  were  candidates  and  both  of  whom 
were  supported  with  great  pertinacity  by  the  delegations 
from  two  counties,  but  the  loyal  and  untiring  support  given 
to  General  ENOCHS  by  his  own  county  of  Lawrence  carried 
the  day  for  him,  and  he  was  nominated,  and,  although  he  had 
received  the  nomination  at  the  end  of  an  unparalleled  strug 
gle,  which  lasted  five  days,  in  two  different  conventions,  an 
adjournment  having  been  taken  from  one  city  to  another  and 
a  period  of  two  months  having  intervened — so  satisfactory 
was  his  nomination  that  no  man  ever  received  a  more  loyal 
support  than  he  received  in  all  the  counties  of  the  district 
and  by  all  the  men  of  his  party  everywhere. 

Of  his  services  connected  with  the  Eifty-second  Congress 
others  will  speak.  Those  who  served  with  him  in  this  Hall 
can  best  describe  his  character  in  Congress. 

Of  him  it  can  be  truthfully  said  that  he  was  careful  and 
considerate  of  and  attentive  to  the  wants  of  his  district. 
He  was  a  faithful  representative  of  local  interests  and  made 
warm  friends  among  the  members  of  Congress,  and  received 
the  approval  of  a  new  constituency,  in  a  Congressional  dis 
trict  which  was  practically  that  in  which  he  had  long  lived, 
by  being  renominated  by  acclamation  and  elected  by  an  over 
whelming  majority  to  the  Eifty- third  Congress;  but  before 
that  body  assembled  the  messenger  came,  and  the  soul  of  this 
gallant  and  distinguished  soldier  and  faithful  citizen  was 
removed  from  earth  to  join  the  great  majority  of  his  comrades 
of  the  war  on  the  other  shore. 

On  Fame's  eternal  camping  ground 

Their  silent  tents  are  spread, 
And  glory  guards  with  solemn  round 

The  bivouac  of  the  dead. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  13 

Mr.  Speaker,  I  feel  that  I  can  not  better  discharge  my 
duty  to  ray  dead  colleague  iu  this  behalf  than  to  incorporate 
in  my  remarks  the  eloquent  and  beautiful  address  of  Rev.  W. 
B.  Marsh,  delivered  at  the  funeral  of  Mr.  ENOCHS: 

COMRADES :  To-day  Ohio  mourns  a  heroic  and  devoted  son,  a  mail 
whose  career  recorded  would  furnish  a  part  of  the  vital  history  of  our 
Commonwealth  and  nation,  and  whose  character  had  elements  worthy 
of  painstaking  analysis. 

I  regret  that  the  brevity  enforced  by  this  mournful  occasion  will  per 
mit  so  little  liberty  on  my  part  in  this  direction. 

It  is  perhaps  fitting  that  he  who  lived  so  modestly  and  carried  himself 
as  a  son  of  the  people  and  a  brother  and  comrade  of  every  man  should 
be  laid  away  with  simplest  obsequies;  public,  only  because  the  public 
know  that  they  are  always  at  home  on  the  grounds  and  in  the  home 
of  General  I^xocus.  This  great  assembly  has  convened  spontaneously 
to  swell  the  one  sad  acclaim  of  family,  friends,  and  old  comrades  in  arms. 

Our  distinguished  friends  from  abroad,  representing  both  Common 
wealth  and  nation,  are  here  in  discharge  of  no  mere  perfunctory  duty, 
but  to  blend  their  testimony  with  ours  that  we  have  lost  not  only  a 
great  citizen,  but  a  friend  and  a  brother. 

The  impressive  lessons  that  always  find  their  way  to  honest  hearts 
concerning  life  and  immortality  have  been  abundantly  suggested  and 
have  found  expression  in  the  more  impressive  language  of  song  and 
prayer  and  of  Holy  Scripture.  No  long  exhortations  can  deepen  or 
enhance  what  is  borne  in  upon  our  souls  so  solemnly  and  aftectingly. 
The  spirit  of  Duty  stands  at  the  head  of  the  bier  and  the  spirit  of  Love 
at  its  foot,  and  they  point  us  to  the  noble  dead  as  one  worthy  to  be  a 
leader  still  along  the  path  of  a  devoted  and  patriotic  life. 

The  elder  ages  were  distinguished  by  contrasting  extremes  of  human 
character  and  destiny.  God  seemed  not  to  care  except  for  mighty  men, 
and  to  use  mankind  as  but  a  base  soil  out  of  which  to  grow  heroes.  We 
have  now  entered  a  new  age,  a  second  act  in  this  drama  of  the  Uiviuepur- 
poses.  Now  the  word  has  gone  forth  from  the  Throne  to  "make  a  high 
way  for  the  people."  "Every  mountain  shall  be  made  low  and  every 
valley  shall  be  exalted,"  not  to  secure  the  level  of  mediocrity,  but  the 
grade  of  the  sublime. 

God  purposed  and  purposes  to  make  all  men  his  people  and  to  make  all 
his  people  prophets.  lie  planned  of  old  through  the  hero  as  an  individ 
ual  to  raise  up  a  race  of  men  of  heroic  mold.  I  eschew  purposely  the 


14  Address  of  Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

cant  phrases  of  a  socialism  that  is  ignorant  and  pretentious,  and  that  seeks 
progress  by  debasing  high  things,  rather  than  by  a  great  continental  ele 
vation.  But  the  era  has  dawned,  and  is  now  crescent,  whose  com 
manding  purpose  is  the  perfection  of  society,  of  man  as  an  order,  rather 
than  of  man  as  an  individual. 

It  is  now  often  said  by  the  frowning  pessimist  that  the  day  of  great 
men  is  past ;  that  our  age  has  not  produced  and  can  not  produce  the  hero ; 
that  in  politics,  and  in  literature,  and  in  art,  and  in  religion  excellence  is 
no  longer  attainable. 

"  Great  is  mediocrity,"  seems  to  their  ears  the  watchword  of  the  nine 
teenth  century  democracy.  But  these  men  misinterpret  the  method  of  the 
Divine  progress  and  evolution. 

The  supreme  care  for  many  ages  did  indeed  seem  expended  to  produce 
a  few  men  worthy  of  being  called  after  God's  name — single  personalities 
looming  up  in  the  midst  of  a  low  level  of  degraded  humanity,  men  super- 
eminent  quite  as  much  by  reason  of  the  depression  of  their  surroundings 
as  by  their  celestial  altitude. 

But  thus  God  has  sought  to  secure  first  the  piers  of  the  great  bridge, 
afterwards  to  cast  athwart  the  chasm  the  mighty  cable.  Joshua  and 
David,  Ilezekiah  and  Ezra,  are  buttresses  of  the  King's  highway;  Enoch 
and  Moses  and  Elijah  are  Gibraltar  fortresses,  at  once  frowning  over  and 
protecting  the  low-lying  plains  and  exposed  seas  of  humanity. 

But  God  seeks  now  quite  other  things.  And  with  this  change  or  ina- 
tuijty  of  plan  arises  a  new  exigency.  The  qualities  now  to  crown  the 
superior  man  are  quite  different.  He  must  still  bo  brave  and  loving  and 
honest  of  purpose  and  self-devoted. 

But  now  he  must  partake  of  the  new  spirit  of  a  divine  social  democ 
racy.  Now,  the  question  is  not  how  elevated  a  man  is  in  his  separate 
personality,  but  how  well  does  he  fill  his  place  in  the  social  organism. 

His  very  success  in  this  will  serve  to  hide  from  the  uudiscerniug  the 
superb  quality  of  his  influence.  The  great  man  to-day,  to  fulfill  God's 
present  purpose,  must  bo  like  leaven  endowed  with  mighty  but  secretly 
working  powers  of  human  sympathies,  not  a  measuring  rod  to  show 
people  how  small  they  are  beside  the  Colossus. 

The  most  conspicuous  gift  of  the  men  of  the  new  age  is  a  certain  spirit 
of  human  brotherliness — camaraderie.  The  solemn  obeisance,  the  prostra 
tion  of  the  body,  the  stately  inclination  of  the  proud  head,  the  formal 
salute,  may  indicate  respect  or  official  subserviency  or  recognition  of 


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social  equality.  But  the  grasp  of  the  hand  through  which  pulsates  the 
bloo'l  of  a  warm  heart,  the  beaming  eye  which  tells  of  sympathy  and 
interest  and  common  rights — this  is  the  symbol  of  comradeship. 

There  is  a  gift  in  it.  You  can  not  impart  it  or  imitate  it.  It  is  more 
than  an  art — it  is  a  mystery — how  an  honest,  cordial  man,  feeling  him 
self  as  in  the  same  boat  of  destiny  with  you,  and  glad  of  it,  can  impart 
somewhat  of  his  very  soul  to  you  in  the  way  he  grasps  your  hand.  There 
are  political  handshakings  and  ministerial  handshakings,  but  they  are 
as  far  removed  from  that  of  which  I  speak  as  society  kisses  are  from 
the  kiss  a  mother  presses  upon  her  baby's  lips. 

General  ENOCHS  had  this  rare  gift  of  deep  and  honest  cordiality.  To 
shake  hands  with  him  was  an  acquaintance.  A  throb  of  human  brother- 
liness  came  across  that  bridge.  He  did  not  need  to  say  that  he  liked 
you  or  wanted  to  help  you.  He  made  no  professions  of  extraordinary 
friendship,  but  felt  himself  that  he  was  your  comrade  and  ready  to 
share  anything  that  he  had — good  gifts  or  perilous  service. 

Social  philosophers  have  a  great  deal  to  say  about  equality.  The 
word  and  the  thought  are  poisoned  with  the  letiveu  of  selfishness. 

There  are  two  forms  of  greed — that  which  by  might  and  opportunity 
appropriates  all  it  can  get;  this  is  the  greed  of  the  pen  and  the  sty. 
The  other  is  the  greed  that  scans  your  neighbor's  plate  or  in  famine 
weighs  out  his  rations.  A  greed  too  weak  to  rob  computes  relative  ad 
vantages  and  offsets  even  the  gifts  of  friendship.  This  is  civilized  greed, 
but  greed  it  is  still.  The  doctrine  of  social  equality  is  selfishness  armed 
with  yardstick  and  scissors,  butcher  knife  and  scales. 

High  above  this  goddess  of  the  Paris  commune  the  spirit  of  comradeship 
sits  cloud-enthroned. 

Comradeship  consists  with  largest  divergence  of  gift  and  possession. 
Your  superior  officer,  your  commander,  may  be  your  comrade.  If  more 
highly  endowed,  if  more  highly  favored,  he  says  by  look  and  action, 
"Take  what  you  need;  ask  Avhat  you  will;  let  me  help  you  if  I  can." 

The  grandest  comradeship  of  the  ages  was  that  of  Jesus  with  his 
chosen  twelve. 

May  the  time  never  come  when  we  shall  have  a  mechanical,  mathe 
matical  equality.  But  may  the  day  be  hastened  when  the  rich  and  the 
poor,  the  highly  endowed  and  the  ignorant,  jthe  strong  and  the  weak, 
shall  be  able  to  grasp  hands,  saying  more  than  "We  are  equals," 
more  even  than  "  We  are  brethren,"  better,  "  We  are  comrades." 


16  Address  of  Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

We  bear  to  his  grave  to-day  a  man  worthy  of  superior  honor.  He  won 
his  place  not  by  home  influence,  not  by  advantages  of  birth  and  inherited 
wealth,  not  by  political  intrigue  nor  by  favor  in  high  places,  but  by 
sheer  force  of  innate  manhood. 

General  ENOCHS,  transplanted  to  other  ages,  would  have  won  his  way 
to  the  front,  and  might  have  gained  the  deceptive  luster  which  now  in 
our  eyes  irradiates  the  mighty  men  of  the  elder  ages.  But  the  glory  of 
our  friend  is  that  he  was  true  knight  of  this  dawning  day  of  human 
brotherhoods. 

He  was  alive  with  the  very  spirit  of  the  age.  His  sword  was  tipped 
with  divine  fire  from  olf  Liberty's  altar,  and  he  was  baptized  in  the 
rising  flood  of  that  great  sea  which  is  ere  long  to  wipe  away  human  wrong. 

We  honor  him  for  attainments  and  for  achievements  in  camp  and  field 
and  legislative  halls.  Hut  most  of  all  do  we  honor  and  hail  the  memory 
of  one  who  never  for  a  moment  forgot  he  was  one  of  the  people,  not 
ashamed  to  be  our  brother  and  our  comrade. 

This  quality  gives  impress  to  the  style  of  patriotism  of  this  new  age. 

I  greatly  honor  the  name  of  George  Washington.  In  the  ranks  of 
heroes  he  stands  preeminent;  but  from  his  cradle  he  was  instructed  to 
think  of  himself  as  a  superior  being,  quite  above  the  low-lying  level 
of  ordinary  citizenship.  His  love  of  country  was  passionate,  his  self- 
devotion  was  perfect,  but  always  self-conscious.  There  was  always 
the  patronizing  air,  "  See  how  dignified  and  great  I  am,  and  yet  how 
unreservedly  I  give  up  all  for  love  of  country.''  In  this,  in  a  degree, 
Clay  and  Webster  were  like  their  great  prototype.  Undoubted  patriots 
and  brave  men  they  all,  but  possessed  somewhat  of  the  spirit  of 
Kaiser  William  the  Third,  who  bids  his  people  trust  him  as  he  trusts 
God.  A  hero  of  this  type  poses — attitudinizes. 

Our  age  has  made  an  advance,  not  a  retrograde,  in  producing  men 
like  Sheridan  and  Hayes  and  ENOCHS,  who  rode  at  the  head  of  their 
columns  and  said,  not  "Boys,  go  in,"  but  "Boys,  come  on.''  I  have  read 
history,  all  I  could  get  my  hands  on.  My  boyhood  was  thrilled  with 
fancies  from  the  bloody  scenes  of  ancient  heroism.  But  never  in  all  the 
history  of  the  race  have  men  fought  with  the  abandon  of  uiicalculating 
bravery  as  up  and  down  the  marches  of  the  Shenaudoah  V alley.  I  saw 
the  Wilderness  and  Spottsylvania  and  Cold  Harbor,  but,  momentous  as 
was  the  struggle  and  nnfl inching  the  courage,  yet  Winchester  and  its 
approaches  saw  deeds  of  personal  prowess  of  the  highest  order  known 
among  men.  1  speak  as  one  who  had  exceptional  advantages  of  seeing 


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both  these  scenes  of  tremendous  achievement  from  a  vantage  ground 
and  without  the  personal  preferences  and  prejudices  which  might  warp 
the  judgment. 

I  can  see  as  in  vision  a  scene  described  to  me  by  General  ENOCHS 
only  a  few  weeks  ago  with  a  purely  incidental  intention  of  illustrating 
a  matter  to  which  I  need  not  now  refer. 

Hayes,  injured  by  a  fall,  his  horse  having  just  been  shot  under  him, 
lies  with  his  head  in  ENOCHS'S  lap,  his  face  turned  away  from  the  scene 
of  disaster,  then  fast  hastening  on  to  panic.  In  the  distance  arises  the 
cloud  of  dust  whose  center,  like  the  core  of  a  cyclone,  contained  the 
foaming  charger  of  Phil  Sheridan,  Hearing  the  goal  of  his  historic  ride. 
"Boys,  are  you  whipped  ?  "  "No,  we  are  ready,  waiting,"  is  the  prompt 
reply.  Victory  flaps  his  wings  over  the  illustrious  trio,  before  whom 
Achilles  and  his  band  of  Greeks  were  play  heroes.  It  is  not  often  in 
modern  warfare  that  personal  prowess  of  a  handful  of  men  turns  the 
scales  of  destiny  and  wrings  victory  out  of  defeat. 

But  the  best  thiug  of  it  all  was  that  this  heroism  was  not  a  mere 
parade  of  physical  prowess;  it  was  championship  of  great  principles. 
The  Greek  poet  represents  the  very  gods  as  enlisted  in  the  fight 
around  ancient  Troy,  and  performing  heroic  deeds  in  aid  of  their 
favorites.  And  the  Hebrew  bard  declares  that  the  very  "stars  in 
their  courses  fought  against  Sisera."  We  believe  that  not  nature 
alone  or  lower  potencies  of  celestial  good  or  evil  were  arrayed,  but 
that  Jehovah  of  Hosts  marshaled  our  armies  in  contest  on  which 
hung  the  fate  of  a  continent  and  the  destiny  of  a  race.  And  the 
echoes  of  the  battle  for  union  and  liberty  will  resound  through  the 
valleys  and  hills  of  Virginia  till  the  archangel's  trump  shall  sound. 
Great  was  the  arena,  observed  of  men  and  angels  the  contest,  and 
enduring  the  victory.  A  new  peace  has  assumed  royal  sway,  not  clad 
in  robes  of  oriental  eft'eminacy,  but  with  victory-crowned  brow.  And 
so  evermore — 

God  give  us  peace,  not  such  as  lulls  to  sleep, 
But  sword  on  thigh  and  brow  with  purpose  knit. 

And  let  our  ship  of  state  to  harbor  sweep, 
Her  ports  all  up,  her  battle  lanterns  lit, 

And  her  leashed  thunders  gathering  for  their  leap. 

And  evermore  God  give  us  men,  true  to  the  high  ideal  and  true  to  the 
illustrious  type,  seeking  to  fulfill  their  destiny  as  sons  of  a  great  republic. 

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18  Address  of  Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

There  are  many  things  we  would  be  glad  to  say  in  further  portraiture  of 
the  noble  band  of  men,  "some  of  whom  have  crossed  the  flood  and  some 
are  crossing  now/'  but  it  is  not  meet. 

We  believe  that  God  who  had  need  of  Samson  and  of  Jephtha — of  the 
strong  and  of  the  valiant — as  well  as  need  of  Moses  the  devout  and  Samuel 
the  spiritual,  had  and  has  still  a  place  in  His  kingdom  for  these  men  of 
mighty  deeds.  They  have  worked  out  their  salvation  in  somewhat  diverse 
fashion  from  many  who  have  been  types  more  approved  of  mother  church  ; 
but  beneath  all  has  been  the  same  sterling  spirit  of  faith  in  God  and  sub 
lime  devotion  to  duty  which  under  any  form  and  guise  constitute  the  bone 
and  muscle  of  true  religion. 

Happy  the  moralist  whose  training  and  breadth  of  view  enable  him  to 
tell  a  man  when  he  sees  one. 

Wise  the  religious  teacher  who  has  learned  to  discount  pretentious  saint- 
liness,  with  its  marble  polish,  and  to  pause  in  admiration  before  elements 
in  character  of  granite  and  iron.  Marble  is  good  for  grand  balconies  and 
for  tombstones;  granite  and  iron  make  foundation  stones  and  anchors. 

The  noblest  work  of  God  and  highest  study  of  man  are  found  within  the 
compass  of  a  brave  soul. 

It  took  the  Almighty  more  than  ten  milleniums  to  make  a  man,  and  then 
He  was  not  satisfied  with  him.  "  It  repented  God  that  He  had  made  man," 
naively  says  the  ancient  chronicler. 

Failure  we  know  there  can  be  none.  When  God  breaks  old  molds  of  life 
it  is  not  because  He  has  tried  and  failed,  but  because  He  has  used  the 
molds  and  fulfilled  their  purpose  and  wishes  to  clear  the  field  for  a  higher 
product.  So  God  made  man,  or  is  making  him. 

There  is  room  and  scope  for  grander  things,  both  for  the  race  here  and 
for  the  individual  in  the  free  and  glorious  kingdom  beyond. 

We  point  not  to  General  ENOCHS'S  life  and  character  and  say,  "Behold 
the  perfect  man,"  but,  rather,  "Behold  what  broad  foundations  the  master 
builder  has  laid  for  temple  or  for  palace." 

Unpretentious,  sincere,  brave,  brotherly,  reverent  of  God,  and  a  lover 
of  all  men  was  he. 

The  battle  of  life  is  ended  and,  as  in  many  another  battle,  the  victor  is 
the  victim — the  fallen  is  the  hero  in  the  strife. 

We  bless  God  that  this  is  but  the  earthward  view.  And  standing  on 
these  green  shores,  if  penetrate  we  may  the  mysterious  void  through 
which  he  has  passed,  we  rend  the  heavens  with  our  salute:  Comrade, 
well  done ! 


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In  addition  to  this  I  will  embody  in  my  address  an  editorial 
written  by  his  friend,  and  which  I  believe  accurately  describes 
his  services  to  the  country. 

It  is  as  follows : 

General  ENOCHS  was  born  near  Middleburg,  in  Noble  County,  March  29, 
1842,  making  him  fifty-one  years  of  age  last  March.  His  parents  were 
Henry  and  Jane  Miller  Enochs. 

He  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm  and  attended  the  common  schools  in 
winter,  with  the  advantage,  however,  of  one  term  at  the  Ohio  University. 
When  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  upon,  he  was  a  student  at  the  Ohio  Univer 
sity,  and  on  the  19th  of  April,  1861,  he  entered  in  Company  B,  Twenty- 
second  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry;  soon  after  he  was  promoted  to  corporal 
and  sent  to  guard  the  railroad  between  Marietta  and  Parkersburg,  thence 
to  West  Virginia,  participating  in  the  numerous  marches  and  skirmishes 
of  his  command  and  the  battle  of  Rich  Mountain.  He  was  promoted  to 
fourth  sergeant,  and  in  that  rank  was  mustered  out  of  the  service  July 
2-1,  1861.  He  at  once  reenlisted  in  Company  K,  Fifth  West  Virginia 
Infantry,  an  organization  composed  almost  whol]y  of  Ohio  men. 

In  October  he  was  elected  captain  of  his  company,  but  owing  to  his 
youth  the  colonel  of  the  regiment  refused  to  recommend  him  for  a  cap 
tain's  commission,  and  he  was  made  first  lieutenant  of  the  company. 
His  drill  and  discipline  soon  attracted  the  attention  of  the  army  officers, 
and  he  was  frequently  complimented  for  the  manner  in  which  he  had 
brought  up  the  company.  His  regiment  was  organized  and  camped  at 
Ceredo,  W.  Va.  Rebel  regiments  were  also  being  organized  within  a  few 
miles  of  its  camp,  the  surrounding  country  swarmed  with  bushwhackers, 
and  his  company  and  regiment  were  in  active  service  from  the  time  of 
their  enlistment.  In  the  winter  of  1862  the  regiment  was  ordered  to 
Parkersburg.  Soon  after  Lieutenant  ENOCHS  was  sent  with  his  company 
to  New  Creek  Station  and  assigned  to  the  command  of  that  outpost.  At 
this  time  there  was  a  vacancy  in  the  majorship  of  the  regiment,  and 
Lieutenant  ENOCHS  was  recommended  by  the  officers  of  the  regiment  for 
the  position,  but  again  his  youth  prevented  his  preferment,  and  he  was 
promoted  to  captain  and  assigned  to  Company  E.  This  company  soon 
became  the  best  drilled  aaul  disciplined  company  in  the  regiment,  and  in 
the  spring  of  1862  led  the  advance  at  the  battle  of  Moorefield,  partici 
pating  in  all  its  marches  and  skirmishes  along  the  South  Branch  of  the 
Potomac,  including  the  battle  of  McDowell,  May  8, 1862. 


20  Address  of  Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

Keturning  to  Moorefield,  the  regiment  crossed  the  mountains  with 
the  army  under  Generals  Schenck  and  Milroy,  striking  the  rear  of  the 
Confederate  army  under  Stonewall  Jackson,  where  the  regiment  was 
engaged.  The  Union  armies,  united  under  General  Fremont,  followed 
Jackson  up  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  skirmishing  and  fighting  day  and 
night  until  the  battle  of  Cross  Keys,  June  8, 1862,  when  Jackson  crossed  the 
river  under  cover  of  night,  burning  the  bridge  behind  him;  Fremont's 
army  went  down  the  valley.  Schenck's  division  and  General  Milroy's 
brigade  (to  which  the  regiment  then  belonged)  marched  from  Luray 
Valley  across  the  Blue  Ridge  and  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  com 
manded  by  Gen.  John  Pope.  The  division  was  assigned  to  the  Eleventh 
Corps,  then  commanded  by  Gen.  Franz  Sigel.  The  regiment  participated 
in  numerous  skirmishes,  until  the  terrible  battle  of  Cedar  Mountain  was 
fought,  which  was  one  of  the  most  desperate  battles  of  the  war. 

The  regiment  afterwards  participated  in  the  battles  along  the  Rapi- 
dan  and  Rappahannock  rivers,  including  Freeman's  Ford  and  Sulphur 
Spring,  being  under  fire  every  day  for  about  twenty  days.  In  the  first 
day  of  the  second  battle  of  Manassas,  although  the  junior  captain  of  the 
regiment,  Captain  ENOCHS  was  in  command.  The  regiment  went  into 
the  fight  near  the  stone  house,  and  in  the  woods  some  distance  beyond 
the  regiment  fought  almost  the  entire  two  days  of  the  battle  over  the 
possession  of  the  railroad  cut  in  the  woods.  The  cut  was  taken  and 
retaken  until  one-fourth  of  the  regiment  was  either  killed,  wounded,  or 
missing. 

History  has  never  given  the  facts  concerning  this  battle;  the  loss  and 
disaster  to  the  Union  Army  there  has  never  been  told. 

The  regiment  next  participated  in  the  battle  of  Chantilly.  In  all 
these  marches,  skirmishes,  and  battles  Captain  ENOCHS  took  an  active 
part,  being  in  command  of  either  his  company  or  the  regiment. 

After  the  battle  of  Chantilly,  the  regiment,  being  almost  entirely 
destroyed,  was  ordered  to  the  fortifications  around  Washington  to 
obtain  shoes  and  clothing.  Soon  afterwards  it  was  transferred  to  the 
Kanawha  Valley,  West  Virginia. 

In  the  spring  of  1863  it  was  ordered  to  Gauley  Bridge,  on  the  Kanawha, 
where  it  remained  the  greater  portion  of  the  year,  scouting  and  skirmish 
ing  through  the  mountains  of  that  country.  August  17,  1863,  Captain 
ENOCHS  was  commissioned  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  regiment.  May  4, 
1864,  his  command  broke  camp  and  started  toward  Lewisburg,  W.  Va. 


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At  Meadow  Bluffs  it  joined  the  army  under  Gen.  George  Crook,  and 
crossed  the  mountains,  destroying  the  railroads  and  bridges.  It  joined  the 
army  under  General  Hunter  at  Staunton,  Va.,  and  under  that  gentleman 
made  the  raid  upon  Lynchburg.  In  its  endeavor  to  get  into  Lynchburg, 
Colonel  ENOCHS  with  his  regiment  charged  the  breastworks,  but  was 
repulsed  and  driven  back  with  heavy  loss.  The  Union  army  was  com 
pelled  to  retreat  to  the  Kanawha  Valley.  This  was  one  of  the  longest 
and  hardest  raids  of  the  war.  It  was,  as  the  general  has  stated  it,  "days 
and  nights  of  marching,  starving,  and  fighting." 

The  regiment  remained  but  a  short  time  in  the  Kanawha  Valley,  wlien 
it  was  ordered  to  Harpers  Ferry  and  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  The  army 
started  up  the  valley,  fighting  the  rebels  at  Bunker's  Hill,  July  19,  1864, 
and  at  Carter's  Farm,  July  20,  1864,  and  at  Winchester,  July  24.  The 
Union  army  was  driven  north  of  the  Potomac  River  and  soon  became  a 
part  of  the  army  under  General  Sheridan,  and  under  him  was  in  the 
battles  near  Halltown,  Va.,  August  22,  23,  and  24,  1864.  At  the  battle  of 
Berryville,  September  3,  1864,  Colonel  ENOCHS'S  regiment  made  a  brilliant 
charge  on  a  Mississippi  brigade  of  four  regiments,  driving  them  from  the 
field  and  capturing  a  number  of  prisoners.  At  the  battle  of  Winchester, 
September  19,  1864,  Colonel  ENOCHS'S  regiment  was  in  the  front  on  the 
extreme  right  of  the  Union  army.  Shortly  after  going  into  the  fight  the 
rebels  were  found  behind  the  stone  walls  on  the  opposite  side  of  a  deep 
slough;  the  regiment  waded  through  and  charged  the  rebels,  driving 
them  from  their  chosen  positions  until  their  fortifications  were  reached. 

In  this  charge  Colonel  ENOCHS  was  severely  wounded  when  within  one 
hundred  yards  of  the  fortifications,  a  ball  striking  him  in  the  head 
and  cutting  through  a  heavy  felt  hat.  He  was  supposed  to  have  been 
instantly  killed,  and  was  left  where  he  fell.  During  the  night  he  was 
conducted  to  his  regiment,  and  the  next  morning  was  again  in  command, 
following  the  retreating  rebels  toward  Fisher's  Hill,  which  point  they 
had  strongly  fortified.  September  22,  Colonel  ENOCHS  was  given  charge 
of  the  advance,  which  climbed  the  mountain  and  got  in  the  rear  of  their 
works  before  they  were  discovered.  When  the  signal  was  given,  the 
whole  army  charged  the  fortifications,  capturing  most  of  the  enemy's 
artillery  and  routing  their  army.  The  regiment  under  Colonel  ENOCHS 
participated  in  numerous  other  skirmishes  up  to  the  battle  of  Cedar  Creek. 

For  gallant  and  meritorious  services  during  this  campaign  Colonel 
ENOCHS  was  brevetted  general,  being  the  youngest  man  of  his  rank  in 


22  Address  of  Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

the  Army -of  the  Potomac.  During  this  service  his  regiment  had  become 
so  depleted  that  it  was  consolidated  with  the  Ninth  West  Virginia,  and 
was  afterwards  known  as  the  First  West  Virginia  Veteran  Infantry. 

The  regiment  remained  in  the  valley  under  General  Hancock  until  nea.r 
the  close  of  the  war,  when  it  was  sent  to  Cumberland,  Md.,  where  Colonel 
ENOCHS  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  Department  of  Maryland, 
and  on  March  13,  1865,  he  was  commissioned  brigadier-general. 

General  ENOCHS  was, a  partisan  in  politics.  He  belonged 
to  the  Republican  party.  He  believed  in  the  principles  and 
the  policy  of  that  party,  and  while  he  had  the  fullest  toler 
ation  for  the  opinions  of  others  at  all  times,  yet  he  believed 
that  it  was  the  duty  of  that  party  at  all  times,  and  under  all 
circumstances,  to  recognize  and  reward  the  services  of  the 
men  who  had  made  the  Republican  party  great,  strong,  and 
powerful  in  the  country,  and  I  honor  him  for  it.  If  he  were 
to  be  tried  on  this  occasion  by  the  touchstone  of  the  doctri 
naire,  or  by  the  professor  of  modern  political  methods  of  the 
East  or  the  South  or  the  West,  he  would  fall  far  short  of 
receiving  the  approval  of  such  pharisaical  judges;  but  if  he 
were  to  be  tried  by  the  standard  of  the  men  who  have  gone 
before  him,  and  who  made  the  party  to  which  he  belonged  a 
great  party,  and  impressed  its  principles  upon  the  statute 
books  of  this  country,  and  wrote  them  in  indelible  words  of 
living  light  in  the  organic  law  of  this  land,  he  would  stand 
par  excellence  a  man  to  be  honored  by  his  successors  in  the 
Republican  party. 

There  was  nothing  about  him  that  suggested  the  idea  that 
he  was  ashamed  of  the  men  who  had  made  him  prominent  in 
Ohio  politics.  He  was  willing  to  recognize  the  instrumentali 
ties  he  was  willing  to  use. 

Mr.  Speaker,  I  attended  his  funeral  at  Ironton.  On  a  beau 
tiful  Sunday  we  assembled  at  the  home  he  loved  so  well  and 
witnessed  the  ceremonies  incident  to  that  solemn  occasion.  I 
never  witnessed  a  greater  demonstration  of  the  love,  affection, 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  23 

confidence,  and  esteem  of  a  great  constituency  than  was  man 
ifested  at  the  bier  of  General  ENOCHS  on  that  occasion. 

For  many  hours  people  came,  not  alone  from  the  Ohio 
counties  around  him,  but  from  across  the  river,  and  for  miles 
from  many  directions  a  great  column  of  sorrowing  people; 
and  as  I  sat  and  witnessed  the  slow-moving  pageant  as  it 
passed  by  the  remains  of  General  ENOCHS,  and  saw  the  tears 
welling  from  the  eyes  of  the  prosperous,  the  strong,  the  poor, 
and  the  humble,  the  masses  of  citizens  who  had  known  him 
all  his  life,  I  felt  that  surely  there  was  some  quality  about 
this  gallant  soldier  and  tried  citizen  that  made  him  the 
especial  idol  and  favorite  of  the  population.  It  was  a  high 
testimonial  to  his  worth  and  standing  as  a  man  and  citizen. 

General  ENOCHS  was  most  happy  in  his  domestic  relations. 
He  married  a  wife  possessed  of  bright  intelligence  aud 
praiseworthy  ambition,  clothed  as  with  a  garment  with  the 
beautiful  womanly  qualities  of  modesty,  energy,  and  courage; 
and  to  her,  as  much  as  to  any  other  incident  of  his  life,  he 
owed  the  progress  which  he  made.  She  had  been  to  him  a 
friend,  monitor,  and  counselor.  Faithful  to  the  last,  with  a 
heart  almost  breaking,  she  stood  at  the  grave  of  her  husband, 
proud  of  his  history,  grateful  for  the  sympathy  manifested  on 
every  side,  and  took  up  the  burden  of  his  life  where  lie  had 
laid  it  down,  to  see  to  it  that  the  splendid  boy  that  he  had 
left  behind  him  should  be,  in  some  measure  at  least,  a  rep 
resentative  of  the  good  qualities  of  his  father. 

Just  as  the  funeral  cortege  was  entering  the  beautiful  bury 
ing  place,  peals  of  thunder  and  vivid  flashes  of  lightning  from 
massive  storm  clouds  rolling  above  startled  the  great  audi 
ence,  and  for  many  minutes  a  display  of  electrical  power  such 
as  is  scarcely  ever  witnessed  in  that  climate  took  place,  and  I 
felt  as  though  it  were  a  fitting  tribute  to  a  life  that  had  been 
stormy  but  successful,  a  life  that  had  been  almost  like  a 


24  Address  of  Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

meteor  flashing  amid  the  surrounding  clouds  that  had  envi 
roned  his  pathway  through  life.  Coming  up,  as  he  had,  from 
humble  life,  he  had  written  his  name  upon  the  records  of  his 
State  in  a  way  never  to  be  erased,  and  this  was  the  end.  It 
was  the  end  of  a  distinguished  citizen,  and  these  ceremonies 
to-day  are  but  to  remind  those  who  come  after  that  the  reward 
of  faithful  service  is  the  token  of  respect  by  the  citizens  of 
the  community.  These  ceremonies  can  not  do  good  to  him, 
for — 

Can  storied  urn,  or  animated  bust, 

Back  to  its  mansion  call  the  fleeting  breath 
Can  honor's  voice  provoke  the  silent  dust, 

Or  flatter y  soothe  the  dull  cold  ear  of  death? 

No;  but  we  can  place  above  his  tomb  the  chaplet  of' our 
honor,  our  love,  our  affection,  our  recognition.  And  the  les 
son  comes  to  us  to-day  with  great  effect  that  we  are  passing 
away;  that  we  are  passing  off  the  stage  of  action;  that  the 
places  that  now  know  us  will  soon  be  filled  by  others,  and  the 
admonition  is  that  we  so  conduct  ourselves  here  that  here 
after  we  may  meet  the  reward  of  the  just  upon  the  other 
side;  that  in  the  great  hereafter  our  Father  will  say,  "Come 
up  higher." 

In  the  grave  all  achievements  of  an  earthly  nature  end. 
The  lesson  that  comes  to  us  is : 

The  boast  of  heraldry,  the  pomp  of  pow'r, 
And  all  that  beauty,  all  that  wealth  e'er  gave, 

Await  alike  the  inevitable  hour. 

The  paths  of  glory  lead  but  to  the  grave. 

And  if  our  lives  are  to  end  thus,  life  indeed  were  not  worth 
living.  Our  hope  or  belief,  our  faith,  goes  out  to  a  higher, 
better,  purer,  and  eternal  life. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  25 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  HENDERSON,  OF  ILLINOIS. 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  Prior  to  the  meeting  of  the  Fifty-second  Con 
gress,  of  which  late  Gen.  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS  was  a  member, 
I  had  no  personal  acquaintance  with  him.  He  was  not,  how 
ever,  unknown  to  me  by  reputation;  and  I  had  heard  him 
spoken  of  as  a  gentleman  of  ability,  and  a  soldier  who  had 
served  with  distinction  in  the  late  war  for  the  suppression  of 
the  rebellion.  But  on  the  meeting  of  the  Fifty-second  Con 
gress,  in  December,  1891, 1  soon  became  personally  acquainted 
with  General  ENOCHS,  and  as  I  met  him-  here  in  this  Hall 
from  day  to  day  I  learned  to  respect  and  admire  him  for  his 
many  manly  qualities  and  for  his  ability  and  patriotism. 

It  is  not  an  easy  matter,  Mr.  Speaker,  for  a  member  of  this 
body  to  take  a  very  prominent  position  in  his  first  term;  but 
from  my  first  acquaintance  with  General  ENOCHS,  and  from  my 
observation  of  his  service  during  the  Fifty-second  Congress, 
he  impressed  me  as  a  gentleman  of  ability  and  of  good  char 
acter,  genial  and  pleasant  in  his  intercourse  with  his  fellow- 
members,  arid  attentive  to  the  proceedings  of  the  House. 
I  know  that  in  all  matters  of  local  interest  to  his  constituents 
and  his  State  he  was  attentive,  earnest,  and  faithful  in  look 
ing  after  them. 

From  frequent  conversations  with  General  ENOCHS,  I  knew 
that  he  was  not  in  good  health  during  his  service  in  Con 
gress,  and  especially  during  the  last  session  of  his  service, 
when  he  felt  great  anxiety  as  to  his  health  and  at  times  was 
very  despondent.  If  he  did  not  say  so  in  words,  he  made 
the  impression  upon  my  mind  that  he  did  not  expect  to 
live  long.  Hence,  while  I  deeply  regretted  the  sad  event, 
I  was  not  surprised  to  hear  of  his  death. 


26         Address  of  Mr.  Henderson,  of  Illinois,  on  the 

But,  Mr.  Speaker,  it  was  not  my  intention  to  speak  at 
length  upon  the  life  and  character  of  General  ENOCHS  at 
this  time.  That  duty  will  be  better  performed  by  those 
more  intimately  acquainted  with  him.  I  only  desired  to 
express  the  high  regard  I  entertained  for  General  ENOCHS 
as  a  member  of  this  body,  and  to  pay  some  tribute  to  his 
memory.  He  was  cut  off  after  serving  a  single  term  in 
Congress.  But  brief  as  his  service  was,  Mr.  Speaker,  it 
was  honorable  to  him  and  honorable  to  his  constituents. 

I  can  not  close,  however,  without  referring  to  the  record 
of  General  ENOCHS  as  a  soldier  during  the  late  war.  That 
he  was  a  brave  and  gallant  soldier,  and  served  his  country 
patriotically  and  faithfully,  there  can  be  no  doubt.  At 
the  very  beginning  of  the  war  for  the  suppression  of  the 
rebellion,  and  before  he  had  reached  his  majority,  his  young- 
heart  was  stirred  with  patriotic  ardor;  and  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  and  entered  the  service  of  his  country  as  a  soldier: 
and  he  served  in  every  rank  from  corporal  to  colonel,  except 
that  of  major,  and  he  was  brevetted  a  brigadier-general. 
Of  such  a  record  any  man  might  well  be  proud.  To  have 
risen  from  a  private  in  the  ranks  in  time  of  actual  war  to 
the  office  of  a  brevet  brigadier- general  is  honor  enough  to 
enshrine  his  name  and  his  memory  in  the  hearts  of  his 
friends,  his  family,  and  his  countrymen. 

Mr.  Speaker,  it  is  to  such  men  as  Gen.  W.  H.  ENOCHS  that 
we  are  indebted  for  an  undivided  Union,  for  the  preservation 
of  the  Government  established  by  our  fathers,  and  the  pros 
perity  which  has  followed  the  great  struggle  in  which  he 
rendered  such  distinguished,  patriotic  service.  All  honor  to 
his  memorv! 


Life  and  Character  of  William.  H.  Enochs.  27 


ADDRESS  OF  MR,  HARE,  OF  OHIO. 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  It  has  seldom  fallen  to  the  lot  of  any  State  to 
be  deprived  within  a  period  of  eighteen  months  of  three  of  its 
Representatives  in  Congress  by  death. 

That  experience,  however,  little  as  it  was  contemplated  two 
years  ago,  infrequent  as  has  been  its  occurrence  in  the  history 
of  this  body,  and  sadly  suggestive  as  it  must  be  to  all  of  us, 
has  been  visited  upon  Ohio,  and  upon  Pennsylvania  also,  since 
the  beginning  of  the  Fifty-second  Congress.  . 

Ohio's  misfortune,  in  the  loss  of  her  three  Representatives, 
began  with  the  unexpected  death  of  the  well-beloved  War 
wick,  after  an  illness  so  brief  that  many  of  his  associates  were 
not  aware  of  its  existence  until  after  its  fatal  ending.  Among 
all  the  surviving  colleagues  who  mourned  his  departure  from 
their  midst,  perhaps  no  two  men  could  have  been  selected 
whose  appearance  more  fully  betokened  the  possession  of  per 
fect  physical  health  and  soundness  than  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS 
and  George  W.  Houk,  both  of  whom  had  been  rechosen  by 
their  fellow-citizens  to  fill  the  places  in  this  Congress  which 
they  had  so  highly  honored  in  the  last;  both  of  whom  were  all 
the  more  fully  equipped  for  the  efficient  performance  of  public 
duty;  both  of  whom  have  since  been  called  away  suddenly, 
without  apparent  warning,  without  even  the  grace  of  an 
intervening  week  of  illness  between  the  flush  of  health  and 
the  pallor  of  death. 

I  speak  from  external  evidences  only,  for  none  of  us  may 
know  the  actual  physical  condition  of  even  his  closest  friend 
nor  the  apprehensions  and  forebodings  that  may,  and  often 
do,  rack  his  mind,  absorb  his  thoughts,  disturb  his  rest,  and 
sit  as  a  spectral  presence  at  the  fireside,  a  id  even  at  the  feast. 


28  Address  of  Mr.  Hare,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

It  is  to  me  a  matter  of  much  regret,  Mr.  Speaker,  that  I  can 
say  so  little  of  what  I  feel  ought  to  be  said  011  this  occasion, 
that  my  contribution  to  the  tributes  of  well-merited  praise 
which  ought  to  and  will  be  paid  to  the  character  and  services 
of  General  ENOCHS  must  of  necessity  be  so  inadequate  as  to 
seem  unworthy  of  the  subject  and  tbe  occasion. 

Personally,  I  had  never  known  him  until  we  met  here  as 
colleagues  in  the  Fifty-second  Congress,  nor  was  my  acquaint 
ance  with  him  here  of  that  intimate  character  that  enables 
one  to  become  familiar  with  the  inner  nature  of  his  friend, 
and  with  the  countless  incidents  that  go  to  make  up  the  per 
sonal  history  and  largely  to  determine  the  personal  character 
and  qualities  of  every  man.  I  only  knew  him  as  all  might 
know  him  with  whom  he  came  in  even  casual  contact,  and  my 
impressions  of  him  were  gained  only  from  such  sources  as 
were  alike  open  to  all  his  associates. 

He  was  a  man  of  generous,  kindly  nature,  of  thoroughly 
patriotic  purpose,  strong  in  his  convictions,  and  wholly  with 
out  fear  of  the  consequences  to  himself  of  any  course  of  action 
he  deemed  it  his  duty  to  pursue.  Hence  the  customary 
restraints  of  party  discipline  were  often  galling  to  him,  the 
necessity  of  conforming  his  conduct  to  the  views  of  others  and 
of  following  in  the  wake  of  party  leadership  irritated  him 
keenly,  and  he  could  not  always  be  controlled. 

Many  a  time  indeed  during  his  brief  service  here  was  he 
known  to  vote  and  act  with  those  to  whom  he  was  politically 
opposed,  not  in  a  factious  or  rebellious  spirit,  not  upon  any  fun 
damental  principle  of  party  policy,  for  he  was  a  partisan,  but 
upon  any  and  every  question  which  did  not  involve  an  essen 
tial  principle  of  political  orthodoxy  the  vote  of  General 
ENOCHS  was  cast  according  to  his  convictions  of  right  and 
justice  regardless  of  the  action  of  his  party  associates.  And 
for  this  manly  spirit  of  independence,  all  too  rare  in  this 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  29 

body,  he  was  deserving  of  the  commendation  of  his  colleagues 
and  of  his  countrymen.  For  the  tendency  here,  Mr.  Speaker, 
is  all  too  great  to  make  of  almost  every  question  of  public  in 
terest  and  importance,  or  even  of  minor  concern,  a  party  ques 
tion,  and  to  vote  upon  it  not  always  with  reference  to  the 
individual  views  of  members  touching  its  intrinsic  merits,  but 
too  often  in  accordance  with  the  sentiment  that  may  prevail 
on  either  side  of  the  central  aisle.  It  is  a  tendency  that  does 
not  improve  in  all  cases  the  quality  of  our  legislation,  that  is 
sometimes  fraught  with  mischief;  a  tendency  that  the  ex 
ample  of  such  a  man  as  General  ENOCHS  would  do  much  to 
rebuke  and  restrain. 

Among  those  with  whom  ne  was  brought  into  most  fre 
quent  contact  General  ENOCHS  was,  in  the  best  sense  of  the 
word,  a  popular  man.  High-minded  and  chivalrous  in  his 
nature,  wholly  free  from  any  form  of  affectation,  without  any 
of  the  instincts  of  the  sycophant  or  the  time-server,  he  was  a 
man  who  loved  his  friends  rather  than  his  enemies,  and  was 
in  turn  beloved. 

Of  his  professional  career,  his  business  and  social  life  prior 
to  his  advent  here,  I  am  not  prepared  to  speak  except  by  in 
ference.  Neither  am  I  familiar  with  the  details  of  his  service 
in  the  army;  but  this  I  know,  the  title  he  bore  was  not  an 
empty  compliment,  bestowed  through  courtesy,  as  is  too  often 
the  case.  For  he  was  one  of  the  heroes  of  the  war,  whose 
courage  was  only  equaled  by  his  modesty,  and  modesty  is 
almost  invariably  found  to  be  the  companion  trait  of  true 
bravery.  In  the  brief  sketch  of  himself  given  in  the  Direc 
tory  we  are  not  even  informed  of  the  command  in  which  he 
served,  but  simply  that  entering  the  service  of  his  country  as 
a  private  soldier  he  rose  through  all  the  intervening  grades  of 
rank  to  become  a  brigadier-general.  And  he  was  but  nine 
teen  years  of  age  when  the  war  began. 


30  Address  of  Mr.  Hare,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

It  is  a  record,  sir,  of  which  any  soldier  might  well  be  proud. 
If  all  its  pages  could  be  unfolded  what  a  history  would  they 
disclose,  what  a  claim  would  they  establish  upon  the  grati 
tude,  the  esteem,  the  admiration  of  his  countrymen. 

But  he  did  not  deem  it  essential  to  his  reputation  here  that 
the  volume  in  which  this  record  is  written  should  be  un 
closed,  and  I  will  not  seek  to  penetrate  its  arcana  nor  even 
to  break  the  seal  put  upon  it  by  him. 

It  is  not  a  light  thing,  Mr.  Speaker,  that  a  young  man 
should  for  the  sake  of  an  idea,  for  the  love  of  liberty,  or  even 
in  the  defense  of  his  country  quit  his  studies,  his  employ 
ments,  and  all  the  hallowed  associations  that  cluster  about 
the  home  of  one's  childhood  to  voluntarily  place  himself  in 
the  front  of  battle,  where  there  could  be  no  thought  of  per 
sonal  safety  and  no  assurance  of  escape  from  wounds  or  even 
from  death. 

You  may  call  it  by  what  name  you  will,  the  sentiment  that 
can  inspire  the  human  heart  to  brave  death,  in  any  form,  when 
the  occasion  is  such  as  to  demand  or  warrant  the  sacrifice,  is 
a  heroic,  a  noble,  a  praiseworthy  sentiment  5  and  whatever 
may  be  the  estimate  put  by  others  upon  such  services  as  were 
rendered  by  our  late  associate  in  the  dark  days  now  happily, 
we  trust,  passed  forever  away,  it  will  remain  for  his  comrades 
to  estimate  them  at  their  true  value. 

For,  sir,  whatever  may  have  been  said  or  written  by  the 
unthinking,  by  dreamers,  by  men  whose  only  ideas  of  war 
have  been  gained  from  works  of  history,  or  of  romance,  none 
but  those  who  have  themselves  experienced  the  horrors  of  ac 
tual  war,  who  have  themselves  kept  the  lonely  vigil  of  the 
midnight  watch  and  marched  beneath  the  burning  heat  of  the 
noonday  sun,  who  have  seen  the  lives  of  their  comrades  go 
out  in  the  hospital  and  in  the  prison  as  well  as  upon  the  bat 
tlefield,  by  the  wasting  fever  as  well  as  by  the  bullet  and 


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sword,  who  have  themselves  stood  in  the  shock  of  battle  and 
witnessed  the  carnage  and  heard  the  cries  of  the  wounded 
and  the  groans  of  the  dying,  can  form  an  adequate  conception 
of  the  perils  incurred  and  the  sufferings  endured  by  the  gal 
lant  and  brave  men  who,  in  our  own  day  and  in  defense  of  a 
cause  no  less  valuable  and  no  less  dear  to  their  countrymen 
than  to  themselves,  wrought  a  work  as  unselfish,  as  heroic,  as 
any  in  the  annals  or  traditions  of  the  past. 

We  are  their  witnesses.  It  is  for  us  to  tell  the  story  of  their 
deeds  to  the  generations  that  shall  follow.  It  is  for  us  upon 
every  proper  occasion  to  speak  their  praises,  and  to  commem 
orate  in  every  appropriate  way  the  virtues  and  services  of  the 
men  who  bore  an  honorable  part,  however  conspicuous  or 
obscure,  in  the  day  of  our  country's  greatest  trial  and  of  its 
supreme  deliverance. 

General  ENOCHS  was  but  a  typical  though  an  illustrious 
representative  of  the  class  of  men  constituting  that  grand 
army  that  mustered  from  the  city  and  the  hamlet,  from  the 
counting-house  and  the  workshop,  from  the  office  and  the 
farm,  in  response  to  the  call  of  the  Government,  then  men 
aced  with  a  most  imminent  and  deadly  danger,  and  not 
simply  menaced  but  actually  involved  in  a  struggle  for  its 
existence  the  most  gigantic,  the  most  memorable  in  the  his 
tory  of  civil  wars. 

And  so,  to-day,  the  garlands  we  bring  would  be  unworthy 
of  us,  and  disparaging  to  our  late  associate  and  comrade,  if 
we  should  fail  to  weave  into  their  structure,  and  blend  with 
every  tribute  we  pay  to  his  memory,  some  expression  of  our 
sense  of  his  fidelity  to  the  highest  duty  that  could  challenge 
the  patriotism,  the  loyalty,  the  heroism,  the  supreme  devotion 
of  any  lover  of  his  country. 

The  response  of  our  friend  to  that  challenge  was  as 
prompt  and  obedient  as  it  was  uncalculatiug  and  sincere. 


32        Address  of  Mr.  Warner,  of  New  York,  on  the 

And  throughout  the  long  and  weary  years  of  the  war  that 
spirit  of  devotion  never  faltered,  nor  did  his  courageous  pur 
pose  for  a  moment  waver,  until  the  victory  was  won  and  the 
flag  under  which  he  fought  floated  again  over  all  the  land,  the 
acknowledged  ensign  of  a  reunited  people,  having  a  common 
country,  common  interests,  and  a  common  destiny. 

What  more  need  be  said  of  him1?  What  higher  tribute  can 
be  paid  to  the  memory  of  any  man  than  to  say  that  he  was 
true  to  every  trust,  loyal  to  every  obligation,  faithful  in  the 
performance  of  every  duty,  generous  in  every  impulse,  sincere 
in  his  friendships,  the  idol  of  his  family,  the  defender  of  his 
country. 

Our  associate,  our  comrade,  our  friend,  is  no  more.  In  the 
peaceful  quietude  of  his  own  home,  the  hero  of  a  score  of  bat 
tles  met  and  surrendered  to  the  destroying  conqueror  whose 
summons  none  may  gainsay  or  resist. 

He  had  lived  to  enjoy  the  reward  of  his  services  and  sacri 
fices  in  the  gratitude  and  love  and  confidence  of  his  fellow- 
citizens.  He  died  in  the  meridian  of  his  manhood  and  in  the 
fullness  of  his  fame. 

Let  a  grateful  nation  hold  him  in  cherished  r3inembrance, 
and  may  the  example  of  his  patriotism  become  and  remain 
the  pride  and  emulation  of  his  countrymen. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR,  WARNER,  OF  NEW  YORK, 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  Upon  my  election  to  the  Fifty-second  Con 
gress,  and  especially  after  my  assignment  to  committees,  I 
took  a  great  deal  of  care  to  become  acquainted,  as  it  were,  in 
advance,  with  those  who  were  to  become  my  colleagues  in  the 
House  and  my  coworkers  in  the  work  of  the  committees  to 
which  I  was  assigned.  I  can  well  remember,  sir,  the  idea  I 
had  formed  in  my  own  mind  concerning  the  gentleman  whose 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  33 

memory  is  now  being  recalled  in  this  House.  I  had  learned 
from  the  brief  notes  that  had  found  their  way  to  me  that,  a 
mere  boy,  he  had  enlisted  in  the  Union  Army,  and,  coming  out 
at  the  end  of  the  war  not  quite  twenty-three  years  of  age,  had 
lilled  nearly  every  position  in  the  line  of  preferment,  from  that 
of  private,  with  which  he  started  out  to  serve  his  country,  to 
that  of  brigadier  general,  the  brevet  of  which  he  wore  when 
he  left  the  service. 

I  also  found,  sir,  that  he  had  come  from  one  of  the  most 
partisan — if  I  may  use  that  term  without  incurring  criticism — 
sections  of  the  country;  where,  if  one  might  judge  from  the 
majority  by  which  his  constituents  sent  him  here  to  represent 
them  in  this  House,  the  tendency  of  his  party  was  such  as  to 
indicate  extraordinary  partisanship  on  the  part  of  his  people. 
I  knew,  sir,  that  the  committee  upon  which  I  met  him  was  one 
within  which,  probably  to  an  extent  not  rivaled  by  that  of  any 
other  committee,  were  considered  matters  which  called  up  the 
most  delicate  questions  of  personal  preference  and  all  the 
warring  claims  of  party  and  of  locality,  and  I  was  prepared, 
sir,  to  be  critical  as  regarded  what  seems  to  me  must  be  the 
course  which  should  be  taken  by  such  a  man  as  I  had  pictured 
him  to  myself — not  in  an  uncomplimentary  manner — but  as  one 
judging  from  the  prejudices  and  predilections  necessarily  op 
posed  to  those  entertained  by  those  with  whom  I  was  associ 
ated,  and  which  would  influence  me  in  deciding  a  course  of 
action. 

Throughout  the  long  term  of  service  in  that  committee  I 
found  the  gentleman  from  Ohio  [Mr.  ENOCHS]  disappointed 
me  in  every  particular,  except  in  confirming  the  high  qualities, 
their  esteem  of  which  had  been  so  strongly  voiced  by  his  con 
stituency.  From  the  beginning  to  the  end  of  a  service  which 
was  marked  upon  his  part  by  unvarying  punctuality  in  attend 
ance  on  our  committee  work,  there  was  not,  I  believe  I  can  say, 
S.  Mis.  215 3 


34        Address  of  Mr.  Warner,  of  New  York,  on  the 

a  single  occasion  in  which  it  could  have  been  inferred,  from  a 
vote  he  cast  or  any  statement  he  made — except  so  far  as  he 
might  have  been  called  upon  for  information  by  those  of  his 
colleagues  who  desired  it — what  was  the  section  from  which 
he  came,  the  party  to  which  he  belonged,  or  the  interest  in 
which  he  might  be  supposed  to  have  most  at  stake.  And,  sir, 
it  is  the  remembrance  of  that  fact,  and  of  that  quiet  industry 
with  which  he  discharged  the  work  that  came  upon  him — the 
laborious  and  thankless  work,  I  may  say,  of  that  committee  in 
the  last  Congress — that  I  am  here  to-day  to  pay  a  tribute  to 
his  memory. 

In  doing  so,  sir,  I  am  paying  tribute  to  the  memory  of  a  sol 
dier  who,  distinguished  in  war  beyond  his  fellows,  never  by 
word  or  deed  fought  a  post  helium  battle ;  to  the  memory  of  a 
partisan  strong  in  his  belief  in  the  mission  of  his  party,  so 
strong  in  his  conviction  of  the  justice  of  its  cause  that  he  be 
lieved  the  best  way  to  serve  it  was  to  serve  the  best  interest 
of  our  common  country,  without  waiting  to  see  how  it  affected 
his  party;  to  the  memory  of  a  gentleman  who,  although  pos 
sessing  to  such  an  extent  the  confidence  of  those  who  knew 
him  that  he  had  every  reason  to  return  that  regard  by  defer 
ence  to  their  personal  predilections,  was  broad  enough  and 
generous  enough  to  treat  every  other  locality  with  the  same 
consideration  that  he  gave  his  own;  to  the  memory  of  a  pa 
triot,  sir,  whose  belief  in  the  destiny  of  his  own  country  was 
so  sanguine  that,  even  as  to  those  who  differed  with  him,  his 
attitude  was  so  tinged  by  his  own  generous  spirit  that  he 
gave  to  every  colleague  credit  for  the  same  patriotic  senti 
ments  that  animated  himself. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  35 


ADDRESS  OF  MR,  MCKAIG,  OF  MARYLAND. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  While  we  pause  in  the  midst  of  our  legis 
lative  duties  to  pay  a  tribute  to  the  gentlemau  so  recently  a 
distinguished  member  of  this  House  from  the  State  of  Ohio, 
I  desire  to  say  that  the  words  I  utter  to-day  come  not  merely 
from  the  fact  of  official  fellowship  with  my  deceased  colleague 
in  the  Fifty- second  Congress,  where  we  were  associated  in 
committee  work,  but  from  the  impulses  of  a  warm  personal 
friendship. 

In  looking  over  the  roll  of  members  elected  to  the  Fifty- 
second  Congress  from  the  State  of  Ohio,  I  was  much  gratified 
to  see  that  Gen.  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS  had  been  chosen  as  a 
member  of  Congress  from  one  of  its  Congressional  districts. 

The  distinguished  gentleman  from  Ohio  [Mr.  Grosveuor] 
has  most  eloquently  and  appropriately  referred  to  the  endear 
ing  and  estimable  qualities  which,  around  the  bier  of  this 
late  distinguished  soldier  and  honored  Representative,  caused 
many  a  tear  to  flow  as  a  tribute  of  the  love  and  respect  of  his 
constituents,  and  I  stand  here  to-day  to  pay  the  same  tribute 
of  a  section  of  the  Southern  country  in  which  he  had  the 
honor  to  serve  a  portion  of  his  military  career  to  the  many 
good  qualities  of  heart  and  mind  that  made  him  esteemed 
and  loved  wherever  the  duties  of  life  called  him. 

Some  may  wonder  what  was  the  primal  essential  feature  be 
sides  that  of  native  gallantry  in  the  striking  personality  of 
General  ENOCHS,  who  was  a  mere  youth  when  he  enlisted, 
that  caused  his  rapid  promotion  from  private  through  each 
successive  grade  to  brigadier-general. 

Soon  after  the  tocsin  of  war  was  sounded,  hundreds  and 
thousands  of  volunteer  soldiers  swarmed  along  the  line  of  the 
Baltimore  and  Ohio  Railroad  seeking  the  front  near  Washing- 


36         Address  of  Mr.  McKaig,  of  Maryland,  on  the 

ton  aud  occupied  points  along  tlie  Potomac  River  and  in  West 
Virginia.  Cumberland,  Md.,  my  native  town,  in  those  troub 
lous  days  was  truly  a  frontier  town,  and  was  garrisoned  with 
Western  troops,  among  them  many  Ohio  regiments.  At  times 
during  the  early  days  of  the  war  we  had  General  ENOCHS 
with  us.  The  comfort  aud  discomfort  of  our  citizens  depended 
very  much  upon  the  character  and  disposition  of  those  who 
were  placed  in  command,  and  our  solicitude  made  us  keen  ob 
servers  of  our  military  rulers.  Our  people  who  were  brought 
in  contact  with  General  ENOCHS  officially  or  personally  soon 
discovered  the  quality  that  contributed  to  his  rapid  advance 
ment  in  the  subsequent  years  of  the  war. 

The  dominant  quality  of  his  nature  was  a  genial,  cordial 
sympathy  with  all  classes  of  noncombatants,  and  his  thor 
ough  appreciation  of  their  helplessness  so  molded  his  offi 
cial  policy  toward  them  as  not  only  to  conquer  their  respect, 
but  to  secure  him  their  lasting  esteem  and  friendship.  We 
soon  learned  that  no  matter  what  might  be  our  own  feelings, 
whether  of  a  Southern  or  a  Northern  cast,  he  was  always 
disposed  to  be  as  kind  and  considerate  as  his  duty  would  per 
mit.  I  am  happy  to  be  able  to  say,  in  the  name  of  the  South 
ern  people  of  my  section,  that  no  kinder  gentleman,  no  more 
genial  spirit,  nor  braver  soldier  ever  held  a  position  of  mili 
tary  command  among  them.  Let  us  hope  that  our  beloved 
country  may  contain  many  like  him  among  our  youth,  and  in 
climbing  the  ladder  of  life  they  would  do  well  to  keep  in  view 
the  record  of  this  distinguished  soldier  and  statesman — 

Whose  life  iu  low  estate  began, 
Who  grasped  the  skirts  of  happy  chance, 
Breasted  the  blows  of  circumstance, 
And  made  by  force  his  merit  known; 
And  lived  to  clutch  the  golden  keys, 
To  mold  a  mighty  State's  decrees 
And  shape  the  whisper  of  the  throne. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H,  Enochs.  37 

General  ENOCHS  served  in  the  army  of  West  Virginia,  where 
such  men  as  Generals  Crook  and  Kelly  held  high  command. 
They,  like  him,  were  men  who  performed  the  official  duties 
assigned  them  to  the  letter  and  spirit,  and  yet  at  the  same  time 
acted  with  such  moderation  and  good  judgment  as  to  keep  all 
classes  of  people  in  that  section  in  touch  with  them.  They 
are  the  commandants  who  are  kindly  remembered  by  our 
people,  but  none  were  held  in  more  esteem  than  the  late  Gen 
eral  ENOCHS. 

Some  fifteen  or  twenty  years  ago  he  returned  to  Cumber- 
laud  as  one  of  the  Grand  Army  comrades  to  celebrate  the  re 
union  of  the  army  of  West  Virginia.  He  and  those  who  came 
there  with  him  were  met  with  the  utmost  hospitality  by  our 
people,  but  none  received  so  warm  a  welcome  as  the  distin 
guished  soldier  whose  life  we  are  now  commemorating. 

When  he  entered  Congress,  I  found  that  the  years  that  had 
elapsed  since  he  visited  Cumberland  had  not  changed  him  in 
any  essential  particular,  as  he  was  still  the  same  genial  gen 
tleman,  and  although  our  previous  personal  acquaintance  had 
been  limited,  we  mutually  looked  each  other  up  and  became 
quite  intimate  during  our  subsequent  official  association. 

Under  the  assignment  of  the  Speaker  we  became  members 
of  the  Committee  on  Public  Buildings  and  Grounds,  aiid  I 
am  glad  to  add  my  testimonial  to  what  has  been  so  eloquently 
said  by  my  colleague  from  New  York  [Mr.  Warner]  as  to 
the  earnest  and  efficient  work  of  General  ENOCHS  in  all 
matters  brought  before  that  committee.  It  was  a  noticeable 
fact  that  in  discharging  his  duties  as  a  member  of  that 
committee  there  were  never  any  manifestations  of  local  or 
sectional  feeling  shown  by  him.  He  invariably  gave  to 
the  consideration  of  the  subject-matter  a  sound,  unbiased 
judgment. 


38         Address  of  Mr.  McKaig,  of  Maryland,  on  the 

At  the  expiration  of  the  Fifty -second  Congress,  when  we 
were  about  to  return  home,  I  went  over  to  his  seat  and  had 
a  pleasant  talk  with  him  in  relation  to  the  work  of  our  com 
mittee  in  the  event  of  our  again  having  the  same  assignments 
upon  the  assembling  of  the  Fifty-third  Congress,  and  when 
we  parted  I  little  thought  that  1  would  never  again  look  into 
his  kindly  face  nor  hear  his  cheery  voice. 

It  was  a  second  time  in  less  than  a  year  that  I  had  un 
consciously  bidden  an  eternal  farewell  to  a  fellow- member, 
and,  strange  to  say,  both  of  the  distinguished  gentlemen, 
ex-Governor  Warwick  and  General  ENOCHS,  were  members 
of  the  Committee  on  Public  Buildings  and  Grounds  and  Rep 
resentatives  of  the  great  State  of  Ohio. 

In  both  of  these  gentlemen  I  felt  a  warm  interest,  not 
only  personally,  but  from  a  kind  of  State  pride,  as  Ohio  was 
the  native  State  of  my  father  as  well  as  my  relations,  the 
McMahons,  Vallandighams,  and  the  Armstrongs. 

Mr.  Speaker,  General  ENOCHS  was  a  man  who  in  all  the 
walks  of  life  lived  up  to  the  straight  line  of  duty,  develop 
ing,  in  a  strong  manner,  promptness  of  action  as  the  great 
feature  of  his  character,  which  led  him  to  success  and  honor 
in  civil,  military,  and  legislative  life.  lie  was  a  modest 
man  withal,  and  not  given  to  thrusting  himself  forward,  but 
when  he  undertook  the  discharge  of  a  duty  he  unswervingly 
carried  it  through  to  its  legitimate  conclusion. 

In  my  opinion,  Mr.  Speaker,  no  braver  or  purer  man  ever 
sat  in  Congress  than  the  late  General  ENOCHS.  The  impres 
sions  I  derived  from  my  association  with  him  were  of  such  a 
character  that  the  tribute  I  pay  to  his  memory  to  day  is  a 
heartfelt  recognition  of  the  qualities  that  endeared  him  to  me 
and  which  gave  him  fame  and  honor  in  the  country  he  loved 
so  well  and  for  whose  life  he  fought  so  nobly. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  39 

It  lias  been  eloquently  said  that  "  Of  the  richest  and 
mightiest  cities  of  this  ancient  world  the  only  surviving  indi 
cations  are  the  temples  and  the  tombs;  their  dwellings,  their 
palaces,  their  theaters  have  all  disappeared — all  the  mag 
nificent  structures  of  their  genius  and  their  pride,  save  those 
erected  to  the  memory  of  the  dead  or  the  worship  of  the 
undying.  'Passing  away'  is  written  on  everything  this  world 
contains,  yet  we  sit  amidst  its  consentaneous  and  emphatic 
•teachings,  unable  to  lay  to  heart  its  single  moral,  engrossed 
with  the  shallow  interest  of  a  few  brief  moments  in  a  passing 
life  with  the  immortal  stars  above  us  and  the  sepulchers  of 
nations  at  our  feet." 

Mr.  Speaker,  when  a  member  of  the  Fifty-second  Congress, 
in  common  with  other  members  of  that  body,  I  saw  gentle 
men  sitting  in  their  seats  in  the  afternoon  of  certain  days  in 
apparent  health  whose  immortal  spirits  had  before  midnight, 
in  obedience  to  the  inscrutable  summons  of  Divine  Provi 
dence,  drifted  across  the  silent  river  into  the  great  unknown — 
one  a  man  of  powerful  physique  and  the  other  slender  and 
delicate. 

In  view  of  this  uncertain  life,  does  it  not  behoove  each  one 
of  us  to  so  conduct  our  lives  that  when  we  in  turn  are  called 
to  make  this  awful  journey  we  may  be  fully  prepared  to  meet 
our  Redeemer,  and  at  the  same  time  leave  behind  us  as  hon 
orable  a  record  as  the  one  whose  life  we  are  commemorating 
to-day? 

Life  is  meant  for  enjoyment  and  for  toil;  but  it  is  meant 
also  that  the  enjoyment  should  never  be  unmingled  or  su 
preme  and  that  the  toil  should  never  be  wholly  remunerative 
or  successful.  This  is  designed  to  be  an  unsatisfying  world, 
and  in  that  design  lies  the  dominant  and  all-pervading  ele 
ment  of  religion  as  it  points  to  a  satisfying  world  beyond  the 


40  Address  of  Mr.  Wilson,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

life  we  are  living  here.    The  actual  is  very  beautiful,  but  it 
is  insufficient  in  view  of  a  possible  far  lovelier  still. 

Science  for  man  unlocks  her  varied  store 
And  gives  enough  to  wake  a  wish  for  more, 
Enough  of  good  to  kindle  strong  desire. 
Enough  of  ill  to  damp  the  rising  fire; 
Enough  of  joy  and  sorrow,  fear  and  hope, 
To  fan  desire  and  give  the  passion  scope ; 
Enough  of  disappointment,  sorrow,  pain, 
To  seal  the  Wise  Man's  sentence,  "All  is  vain," 
And  quench  the  wish  to  live  these  years  again. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  WILSON,  OF  OHIO. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  I  have  listened  with  pleasure  and  profit 
to  the  well-deserved  tributes  which  have  been  paid  to  the 
memory  of  General  ENOCHS  here  to-day. 

It  was  my  fortune  to  have  some  acquaintance  with  the 
distinguished  gentleman  whose  death  we  to-day  commemo 
rate.  I  did  not  know  him  intimately,  but  frequently  met 
him  in  conventions  of  the  political  party  of  which  he  and  I 
were  members.  In  common  with  those  who  met  him  in  any 
of  the  walks  of  life,  I  learned  to  esteem  Gen.  WILLIAM  H. 
ENOCHS -for  his  excellent  capabilities,  genial  fellowship,  and 
his  splendid  military  achievements. 

General  ENOCHS  was  warm-hearted  and  generous  to  a 
fault.  He  could  not  resist  the  appeals  of  those  who  were 
disposed  to  disregard  his  friendship  by  imposing  upon  his 
magnanimity.  But  while  this  characteristic  trait  of  his  con 
stitution  was  often  prejudicial  to  his  interests  and  individual 
success  in  business  affairs,  it  contributed  to  his  great  popu 
larity  among  the  people  with  whom  he  lived.  The  generous- 


Life  and  Character  of   IViUiam  H.  Enochs.  41 

hearted  man  is  always  lovable  because  of  his  disinterested 
solicitude  for  the  welfare  of  the  humble  people. 

As  one  of  the  Congressional  committee  who  attended  the 
funeral  of  General  ENOCHS,  I  met  a  very  large  congregation 
of  sympathizing  friends  and  neighbors,  who  reverently  wit 
nessed  the  last  sad  rites.  There  were  present  also  many 
distinguished  gentlemen  from  abroad.  The  attendant  scenes 
were  impressive,  one  affecting  feature  being  the  presence  of 
many  humble  men  and  women,  who  timidly  entered  the  room 
where  the  remains  were  resting,  and,  as  the  unbidden  tears 
moistened  their  cheeks,  lingering  looked,  and  then  turned 
away  from  all  that  was  mortal  of  the  man  who  had  been  their 
friend. 

I  am  informed  that  our  lamented  colleague  died  a  poor  man. 
But  is  it  not  worthy  of  reflection  that  this  consideration  is 
small  compared  to  the  fact  that  his  memory  is  enshrined  in 
the  hearts  of  a  grateful  people.  There  are  more  than  enough 
men  who  have  died  rich  in  the  possession  of  this  world's 
goods,  but  who  left  behind  them  no  treasures  in  the  memories 
of  those  who  survived  them.  The  wealthy  may  have  erected 
to  their  memories  magnificent  monuments  of  marble  or  gran 
ite  to  mark  the  resting  places  of  their  ashes;  but  a  far  more 
enduring  and  honorable  tribute  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  a 
man  is  the  abiding  love  and  respect  which  those  who  knew 
him  best  retain  for  him  after  his  death. 

WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS  was  born  on  a  farm  March  24,  1842, 
and  was  there  brought  up.  He  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools,  entered  the  Cincinnati  Law  School,  graduated  in 
180(5,  and  then  practiced  law.  Tie  was  always  courteous  in 
his  intercourse  with  other  members  of  the  bar  and  in  the 
presence  of  the  court. 

But  to  my  mind  the  most  distinguished  part  of  his  eventful 
life  was  his  services  for  the  preservation  of  the  Union.  He 


42  Address  of  Mr.  Wilson,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

enlisted  in  the  Twenty-second  Regiment  of  Ohio  Volunteer 
Infantry  on  the  19th  day  of  April,  A.  D.  1801 ;  and  he  after 
wards  enlisted  in  the  Fifth  Kegimeut  of  West  Virginia  Vol 
unteer  Infantry,  and  became  its  commanding  officer  and  led 
his  regiment  in  many  severe  engagements. 

On  account  of  his  bravery  he  was  promoted  corporal,  ser 
geant,  lieutenant,  captain,  lieutenant-colonel,  colonel,  and 
brevet  brigadier-general  successively.  This  is  a  record  of 
which  any  man  should  be  justly  proud.  As  much  as  I 
esteem  civil  honors,  I  regard  the  military  services  of  General 
ENOCHS  in  the  war  of  the  rebellion  as  especially  honorable. 
The  man  who  in  a  righteous  cause  risks  his  life  and  sacrifices 
his  private  interests  for  the  public  welfare  is  entitled  to 
greater  credit  than  he  who  in  civil  affairs  distinguishes  him 
self  above  his  fellow-men. 

General  ENOCHS  was  a  member  of  the  Fifty-second  Con 
gress  and  served  in  that  body  with  distinction  and  ability. 
His  constituency,  proud  of  his  record,  returned  him  to  the 
Fifty-third  Congress,  but  he  died  before  entering  upon  the 
discharge  of  his  duties.  He  was  patriotic  to  an  eminent 
degree,  and  always  used  his  best  endeavors  to  advance  the 
interests  of  those  whom  he  represented,  and  especially  those 
who  served  with  him  in  the  armies  of  his  countries.  If  Gen 
eral  ENOCHS  had  faults — and  who  has  not"? — they  were  those 
of  an  overgeuerous  heart  and  were  not  of  the  kind  that 
inflicted  injuries  upon  others.  He  was  a  good  citizen,  a  brave 
soldier,  an  able  lawyer,  a  loving  husband  and  father,  a  true 
friend — a  gentleman. 

Mr.  Speaker,  I  regret  that  I  am  not  prepared  to  make  more 
fitting  if  not  more  extended  remarks  on  this  occasion.  And  I 
sincerely  hqpe  that  my  esteem  for  General  ENOCHS  personally 
and  my  regard  for  his  civil  and  military  services  will  not  be 
measured  by  the  few  words  which  I  speak  to-day.  I  am  not 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  43 

sure  that  with  preparation  and  care  it  would  be  possible  for 
me  to  effectually  express  my  appreciation  of  my  distinguished 
fellow-citizen  and  fellow-soldier.  His  name  is  honored  and 
respected  among  his  neighbors,  and  his  record  as  a  statesman 
and  soldier  is  found  in  the  archives  of  his  country,  where 
future  generations  may  trace  his  honorable  and  eventful  civil 
and  military  career. 

It  is  not  expected  that  my  remarks  shall  transcend  a  brief 
mention  of  the  salient  features  of  a  busy  and  useful  life.  Yet, 
when  confronted  with  the  subject  of  life  and  death,  our  minds 
naturally  reflect  upon  the  possibilities  of  a  future  life.  It  is  at 
such  times  that  we  most  realize  our  inability  to  fully  compre 
hend  the  attributes  of  the  soul. 

Life  is  marvelous  beyond  description,  and  death  is  not  more 
mysterious  than  birth.  The  human  intellect  is  incapable  of 
understanding  the  principle  of  life,  and  can  not  penetrate  be 
yond  the  veil  which  separates  life  and  death.  The  tongue  is 
powerless  to  express  our  imaginations  or  portray  our  feeble 
conceptions  concerning  the  final  destiny  of  man. 

It  is  only  by  faith  we  see  the  glimmering  lights  of  an  eternity. 
What  ecstatic  beauties  usher  the  spirit  into  the  realms  of 
futurity  are  known  only  to  those  who  have  passed  beyond  the 
scenes  of  earth. 

But  our  faith  in  the  divinity  of  our  Creator  springs  from  our 
hope  of  an  eternity.  The  wisdom  of  God  surpasses  our  under 
standing,  and  I  believe  we  may  rest  assured  of  His  goodness 
and  mercy  in  all  of  His  dealings  with  the  subjects  of  His  crea 
tion.  Acknowledging  His  supremacy,  trusting  in  His  prom 
ises,  and  recognizing  His  infinite  solicitude  for  the  welfare  of 
the  human  race,  may  we  not  freely  commit  into  the  keeping  o.f 
our  Creator  the  final  destiny  of  every  individual  soul? 


44  Address  of  Mr.  Northway,  of  Ohio,  on  the 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  NORTHWAY,  OF  OHIO, 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  lu  the  presence  of  death  we  should  always 
speak  words  of  soberness  and  truth.  Unmerited  eulogy 
should  never  be  indulged  in,  nor  should  we  withhold  a  single 
word  of  just  commendation.  We  may  not  always  speak  all 
the  truth  of  a  dead  person,  but  what  we  do  say  should  always 
be  the  truth.  Our  portraiture  of  a  person  should  be  so  life 
like  that  acquaintances  of  that  person  can  recognize  in  our 
language  a  correct  likeness  of  the  life  and  peculiarities  of  the 
one  spoken  of. 

Such  language  may  not  always  be  used  with  pleasure,  for 
its  correctness  may  cause  pain,  not  alone  in  the  speaker  but  in 
the  hearer  or  reader  as  well. 

But  when  we  have  a  subject  of  whom  truthful  words  can  be 
spoken  without  pain  to  the  speaker  or  the  listener,  then  what 
might  otherwise  be  a  burden  is  relieved  of  all  unpleasantness 
and  we  cheerfully  perform  a  sad  duty  in  speaking  of  the 
merits  of  a  dead  friend. 

In  speaking  of  a  public  man  we  may  confine  our  words  to 
his  public  life  as  he  lived  it  and  leave  untouched  his  private 
life,  or  we  may  venture  to  comment  upon  both.  This  often 
times  relieves  a  speaker  of  much  embarrassment,  for  the  pub 
lic  life  may  have  been  such  as  to  merit  commendation,  while 
the  private  life  may  have  been  such  that  truthful  words  had 
better  not  be  spoken  publicly  of  it. 

But  when  tbe  private  life  has  been  along  the  line  of  high, 
noble,  and  manly  action,  has  aided  humanity  and  relieved 
pain  and  want,  has  strengthened  the  moral  forces  in  society, 
has  tended  to  build  up  and  protect  homes  and  families,  has 
aided  in  the  education  and  elevation  of  the  masses,  has  been 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  45 

an  example  for  the  young,  ambitious,  and  struggling  men 
and  women,  lias  added  to  the  imperishable  glory  of  a  nation, 
and  taught  the  world  by  examples  of  heroic  daring  that 
sacrifice  of  one's  self  in  defense  of  one's  country  places  that 
one  in  the  list  of  the  immortals ;  and  when  to  this  is  added 
a  public  life  which  fully  supplements  the  private  life,  and 
seeks  to  carry  out  in  public  acts  those  things  which  speak  for 
public  good,  then  we  may  with  lively  feelings  of  satisfaction 
make  fitting  mention  of  the  whole  life  and  hold  it  up  in  lan 
guage  of  truthful  eulogy  as  a  life  to  be  commended  and 
followed  as  an  example. 

Some  men  have  lived  more  conspicuous  lives  than  General 
ENOCHS,  but  few  have  lived  truer  or  better  ones.  Many 
have  had  more  extended  public  lives,  none  have  lived  those 
lives  more  conscientiously  than  he.  Many  whose  private  lives 
were  known  by  a  larger  circle  of  men  and  women;  few  whose 
lives  were  purer  or  blessed  more  within  its  influence. 

I  had  not  the  pleasure  of  an  acquaintance  with  our  dead 
friend,  and  it  is  for  me  to  regret  the  want  of  that  acquaint 
ance. 

Few  men  have  devoted  themselves  more  unselfishly  to  pub 
lic  or  private  good.  Few  men  have  exhibited  greater  devotion 
to  their  country  or  taught  to  better  advantage  the  example 
of  heroic  daring. 

Entering  the  army,  as  he  did,  a  young  man,  and  passing 
through  all  grades  from  private  to  brigadier-general  by  brevet, 
he  exibited  a  devotion  to  patriotism  and  country  which  must 
make  his  name  immortal  among  the  heroes  of  a  country 
which  blesses  and  immortalizes  its  brave  defenders.  \A7hen 
the  war  was  over,  no  feeling  of  hate  or  resentment  found 
lodgment  in  his .  bosom.  From  over  the  fields  of  Vicksburg, 
Chickamauga,  Gettysburg,  and  Appomattox  there  came  to 
him  no  breezes  freighted  with  malice  or  hate,  but  he  was 


46  Address  of  Mr.  Northway,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

filled  with  forgiveness  for  all  who  made  those  fields  possible, 
and  love  undying  for  all  those  brothers  in  arms  who  made 
those  fields  glorious. 

He  was  a  soldier  who  fought  bravely  and  well  to  con 
quer — and  then  he  forgave  and  treated  all  as  brothers  and 
not  as  conquered. 

He  had  a  broad-gauged  mind,  and  he  looked  at  things  on 
the  human  side  and  judged  all  in  the  spirit  of  kindness  and 
humanity. 

His  service  in  Congress  was  of  such  short  duration — being 
but  one  term — that  little  opportunity  was  afforded  him  to  do 
those  things  which  would  bring  him  into  prominence.  None 
know  so  well  as  those  who  have  tried  the  experiment  how 
helpless  one  is  to  be  of  much  service  to  his  constituents  or 
the  country  in  Congress  until,  by  experience,  he  has  learned 
how  work  is  done  and  under  what  rules.  So  it  came  about 
that  General  ENOCHS  followed  the  course  pursued  by  so  many 
others,  and  made  but  little  public  show.  Yet  those  of  you 
who  served  with  him  know  how  conscientiously  he  performed 
those  duties  which  fell  to  his  lot  to  perform. 

But  his  history  as  a  soldier,  citizen,  and  public  man  is  a 
sure  guaranty  that  had  he  lived  to  continue  his  career  in  Con 
gress  he  would  have  made  a  brilliant  record  and  become  the 
pride  of  his  constituents  and  his  State.  But  death  respects 
not  ambition  or  prospective  greatness  in  life.  His  icy  touch 
chills  into  everlasting  stillness  the  brave,  the  gentle,  the 
young,  and  brilliant,  as  well  as  the  weak  and  dull.  He  re 
spects  not  bright  hopes,  and  is  not  stayed  by  breaking  hearts, 
but  enters  all  the  walks  of  life,  and  leaves  his  pall  upon  all 
homes,  and — 

With  ever  Imsy  fingers 

Culls  his  flowers,  the  sweetest,  rarest, 

Binding  in  his  sheaves  the  fairest. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  47 

But  his  touch  is  not  the  end.  Those  who  are  worthy  will 
live  in  the  memories  of  those  who  have  been  blessed  by  them 
and  in  the  remembrance  of  noble  acts  well  done.  General 
ENOCHS  when  a  very  young  man  exhibited  qualities  of  man 
hood  and  bravery  which  enshrined  him  in  the  hearts  of  his 
neighbors  and  friends  and  made  his  career  memorable. 

He  listened  to  the  call  of  his  countrymen,  and  well  did  he 
perform  his  duty. 

And  in  his  life  he  learned  as  well  as  taught  that — 

Not  once,  nor  twice,  in  our  fair  country's  story, 

Was  the  path  of  duty  the  way  to  glory; 

And  he  who  walks  it,  thirsting  only  for  the  right, 

And  learns  to  deaden  love  of  self — 

Before  his  journey  closes  he  shall  find 

The  stubborn  thistle  bursting  into  glossy  purples, 

Which  outredden  all  voluptuous  garden  roses. 

Death  may  cut  short  human  action,  but  it  can  not  chill  for 
ever  the  memory  of  noble  acts.  So  beyond  the  boundary  of 
human  activity  buds  and  blooms  loving  remembrance,  bidding 
defiance  to  death. 

Our  dead  friend  lives  in  all  that  is  deathless;  only  his  form 
is  gone.  His  devotion  to  home  and  country,  his  bravery  and 
gentleness,  his  life,  "four  square  to  every  wind  that  blew,"  his 
kindness  to  friends  and  neighbors,  his  activity  for  public 
good,  his  humanity,  bear  him  up  to  everlasting  remembrance, 
and  have  earned  for  him  among  his  neighbors  and  acquaint 
ances  that  glorious  commendation  which  we  trust  greeted  liim 
on  the  other  shore — "Well  done." 


48  Address  of  Mr.  Bundy,  of  Ohio,  on  the 


ADDRESS  OF  MR,  BUNDY,  OF  OHIO. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  To  my  colleague,  General  Grosvenor,  was 
committed  the  charge  of  conducting  the  order  of  the  proceed 
ings  in  calling  the  attention  of  the  House  to  the  death  of  the 
late  General  ENOCHS. 

This  is  in  accordance  with  the  wishes  of  his  family  and 
friends,  as  I  am  advised,  but  I  desire  the  privilege  of  casting 
a  sprig  of  cassia  into  his  grave,  and  of  placing  a  flower  on 
his  tomb. 

Gen.  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS  was  mjr  immediate  predecessor, 
having  been  elected  in  November,  1892,  from  the  Tenth  Ohio 
Congressional  district.  From  the  Directory  of  the  Fifty-second 
Congress  I  glean  a  short  and  incomplete  sketch  of  his  life. 

From  this  I  learn  that  he  was  born  in  Ohio  on  the  29th  day  of 
March,  1842.  He  was  brought  up  on  a  farm,  and  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools  peculiar  to  those  earlier  days;  he 
entered  the  Union  army  as  a  private  early  in  the  war;  served 
throughout  the  war  as  private,  sergeant,  captain,  lieutenant- 
colonel,  colonel,  and  brigadier-general.  He  commenced  the 
study  of  law  in  camp,  and  at  the  close  of  the  war  entered  the 
Cincinnati  Law  School,  from  which  he  graduated,  and  was 
then  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  at  once  actively  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  which  he  followed  until  his  death. 

At  the  annual  election  of  1890  General  ENOCHS  was  elected 
to  the  Fifty-second  Congress  from  the  Twelfth  Ohio  district 
by  a  very  large  majority,  leading  the  State  ticket,  and  in  1892 
he  was  elected  to  the  Fifty-third  Congress  from  the  Tenth 
Ohio  district,  which  is  composed  in  part  of  the  former  Twelfth 
district. 

On  the  morning  of  the  13th  of  last  July  our  district  and 
State  were  severely  shocked.  The  startling  news  went  over 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  49 

the  wires  of  the  sudden  death,  at  his  home  in  Ironton,  of  Con 
gressman  ENOCHS.  The  news  seemed  incredible;  and  at  first 
the  people  were  unwilling  to  accept  it  as  true.  Conspicuously 
powerful  in  appearance,  and  in  all  his  methods  of  work  and 
action,  he  seemed  certain  to  survive  all  assaults  save  those  of 
the  ultimate  years  of  man's  allotted  time.  He  had  scarcely 
reached  the  meridian  of  his  power,  had  just  attained  that  point 
of  a  career  whose  future  was  destined  to  become  one  of  useful 
ness  and  distinguished  honor,  when  summoned  from  Time  to 
Eternity. 

General  ENOCHS  was  one  of  the  noted  characters  that  stand 
out  in  history,  showing  the  possibilities  of  the  young  man  who 
goes,  unaided  by  wealth  or  fortuitous  circumstances,  and  by 
the  force  of  his  own  will  power,  honesty,  industry,  and  perse 
verance  can  achieve  and  win  distinction  among  his  fellows 
such  as  the  world  awards  to  the  so-called  majesty  of  genius. 

Born  on  a  farm,  inspired  by  the  objects  of  nature,  it  might 
be  said  that  General  ENOCHS  received  the  rudiments  of  his 
education  in  the  school  of  practical  experience,  which  so  emi 
nently  fits  a  young  man  for  the  battle  of  life. 

Plain  and  unpretentious  of  manner,  with  a  nature  abound 
ing  in  human  sympathies,  a  lover  of  his  country  and  of  his 
kind,  he  was  essentially  a  man  of  the  people,  a  great  com 
moner  who  was  ever  ready  to  give  a  helping  hand  to  his  fel 
lows.  He  was  a  man  of  pronounced  convictions  on  all  ques 
tions  and  was  as  fearless  in  their  utterance  as  he  was  sincere 
in  their  entertainment. 

He  was  unfaltering  in  his  loyalty  to  Republican  principles, 
and  even  his  political  enemies  were  frank  to  admit  their  admi 
ration  for  his  open  and  conscientious  convictions. 

He  stood  squarely  upon  his  merits  as  a  man  in  all  the  rela 
tions  of  life,  never  shirked  a  duty  nor  sought  to  evade  re 
sponsibility.     His  life  was  one  of  self-sacrifice  in  behalf  of  ' 
S.  Mis.  215 4 


50  Address  of  Mr,  Bundy,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

others,  arid  he  died  as  he  had  lived — an  enemy  to  none,  a  friend 
to  all  mankind. 

General  ENOCHS  was  a  citizen  loved  by  his  neighbors,  hon 
ored  and  respected  by  all;  he  was  a  philanthropist  with  a 
generous  hand,  and  no  unfortunate,  however  poor,  ever  left 
his  door  without  having  been  comforted  by  his  generosity. 
He  was  a  soldier  by  instinct,  a  stranger  to  fear,  a  gallant 
leader  whom  men  were  always  proud  to  follow,  and  whose 
time  and  talent  in  later  years  were  devoted  to  the  cause  of  his 
comrades.  History  shows  that  he  was  distinguished  in  all 
the  lines  of  service  in  the  army — in  fact,  that  he  was  one  of 
the  youngest,  if  not  the  youngest,  commandants  of  a  brigade 
in  the  volunteer  service.  He  was  a  lawyer  true  to  his  profes 
sion,  and  exhibited  an  unfaltering  zeal  for  the  success  of  his 
clients.  He  was  a  statesman  of  the  practical  type,  with 
exalted  ideas  of  the  obligations  which  public  trust  imposes. 
He  was  a  patriot  who  loved  his  country  with  a  jealous  love, 
and  was  willing,  if  need  be,  to  lay  down  his  life  in  defense  of 
the  old  flag  and  the  principles  which  it  represents. 

General  ENOCHS  possessed,  in  a  marked  degree,  all  the 
elements  which  serve  to  attract  men  to  each  other.  His 
popularity  and  ability  are  plainly  demonstrated  by  his  rapid 
promotion  in  the  army,  his  success  as  a  lawyer,  and  his  elec 
tion  to  Congress. 

But  he  has  been  suddenly  called  from  his  field  of  activity 
and  usefulness  here  to  take  up  the  line  of  inarch  of  the  silent 
majority,  including  a  large  number  of  his  old  comrades  in  the 
field,  to  the  goal  where  we  hope  and  believe  there  is  no  war, 
but  where  all  is  peace  and  joy  eternal. 

But,  Mr.  Speaker,  our  resolutions  and  eulogies  fall  silent 
upon  the  ear  of  our  dead  colleague. 

The  good  knight  is  dust, 

His  good  sword  is  rust, 

His  soul  is  with  the  saints,  we  trust. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  51 

Mr.  Speaker,  the  sudden  taking  off  of  General  ENOCHS  left 
the  companion  of  his  joys  and  the  sharer  of  his  trials  and  sor 
rows,  together  with  an  only  son — a  bright  young  man — and 
his  father,  earnestly  desiring  that  he  should  have  that  educa 
tion  and  preparation  necessary  for  intelligent  and  effective 
services  to  his  country,  nominated  him  to  a  cadetship  to  the 
Military  Academy  at  West  Point,  and  who,  it  is  believed,  will 
worthily  represent  the  best  interests  of  the  country  in  the 
future  as  his  brave  father  did  in  the  past. 

Mr.  Speaker,  when  I  retired  from  Congress  in  March,  1875, 
five  of  my  colleagues  had  fallen  during  the  last  or  short  ses 
sion  of  that,  the  Forty-third,  Congress.  As  I  return  now,  five 
of  those  who  were  members  of  this  Congress  have  passed  to 
the  other  shore. 

Surely,  Mr.  Speaker,  this  ought  to  admonish  us  that  we  are 
fast  approaching  the  assembling  of  that  great  and  final  con 
gress  of  all  nations,  kindred,  and  tongues,  whose  sessions  and 
terms  are  eternal,  and  whose  business  can  not  be  interrupted 
by  broken  quorums.  Is  it  not  the  supreme  duty  of  the  hour 
that  the  living  should  take  all  the  precaution  possible  to  as 
sure  the  regularity  of  the  elections,  returns,  and  the  official 
signing  and  sealing  of  commissions,  so  as  to  secure  an  unchal 
lenged  right  to  seats  in  that  greatest  of  all  congresses,  where 
we  shall  be  fully  prepared  to  answer  "yea"  to  that  most  sig 
nificant  and  important  question  propounded  by  "the  man  of 
Uz,"  in  the  long  ago — 

If  a  man  die,  shall  he  live  again  ? 

The  resolutions  were  adopted;  and  the  House  accordingly 
(at  three  o'clock  and  fifty-five  minutes  p.  m.)  adjourned. 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  THE  SENATE. 


ANNOUNCEMENT    OF    DEATH. 

APRIL  19,  1894. 

Mr.  SHERMAN.  I  ask  that  the  resolutions  adopted  by  the 
House  of  Representatives  on  the  occasion  of  the  death  of 
my  late  colleague  in  that  House,  Gen.  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS, 
may  now  be  laid  before  the  Senate. 

The  VICE-PRESIDENT.  The  Chair  lays  before  the  Senate 
the  resolutions  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  which  will 
be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  the  resolutions,  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  the  House  has  heard  with  sincere  regret  the  announce 
ment  of  the  death  of  Hon.  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS,  late  a  Representative 
from  the  State  of  Ohio. 

Resolved,  That  the  business  of  the  House  be  suspended,  in  order  that 
the  public  services  and  private  character  of  the  deceased  be  thoroughly 
commemorated. 

Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  be  directed  to 
communicate  these  resolutions  to  the  Senate,  and  send  a  duly  attested 
copy  to  the  widow  of  the  deceased. 

Resolved,  That  at  the  conclusion  of  these  services  the  House,  as  a 
further  mark  of  respect,  do  adjourn. 

Mr.  SHERMAN.  I  move  the  adoption  of  the  resolutions  which 
I  send  to  the  desk. 

The  VICE-PRESIDENT.  The  resolutions   submitted  by  the 
Senator  from  Ohio  will  be  read. 
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Announcement  of  death.  53 

The  Secretary  read  the  resolutions,  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  has  heard  with  deep  sensibility  the  an 
nouncement  of  the  death  of  Hon.  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS,  late  a  Represent 
ative  from  the  State  of  Ohio. 

Resolved,  That  the  business  of  the  Senate  be  now  suspended,  in  order 
that  fitting  tribute  be  paid  to  his  memory. 

Mr.  SHERMAN.  I  ask  for  a  vote  on  the  adoption  of  the  reso 
lutions. 

The  VICE-PRESIDENT.  The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the 
resolutions. 

The  resolutions  were  unanimously  agreed  to. 


Address  of  Mr.  Sherman,  of  Ohio,  on  the 


EULOGIES. 

APRIL  19,  1894. 

ADDRESS  OF  MR.  SHERMAN,  OF  OHIO. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  The  oft-recurring  announcement  in  this 
Senate  Chamber  of  the  death  of  one  of  our  associates  must 
impress  us  with  our  uncertain  tenure  of  human  life,  as  well  as 
of  official  honors.  Death  regards  110  party,  age,  section,  or 
service.  It  comes  to  all,  but  gives  no  warning  of  time  or 
place  or  circumstance.  Vigorous  manhood  may  be  the  first 
victim,  while  feebleness  and  old  age  are  spared. 

The  death  of  my  late  colleague,  Gen.  W.  H.  ENOCHS,  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Eepreseiitatives  from  Ohio,  is  a  strik 
ing  example  of  this  law  of  life  and  death.  After  an  active  life 
of  fifty-one  years  he  had  attained  a  position  of  honor  and  use 
fulness  where  he  could  hope  to  take  a  leading  part  in  the 
House  of  Eepresentatives  and  prove  in  that,  the  highest  pop 
ular  arena  of  American  talent,  his  marked  energy  and  ability. 
He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  House  in  1890  by  an  over 
whelming  majority,  and  was  reelected  almost  without  opposi 
tion  in  1892.  He  had  the  affection  and  confidence  of  his 
constituents,  and  in  natural  course  and  by  the  conservative 
usage  of  his  people  would  have  been  long  retained  as  their 
representative,  but,  unhappily,  before  entering  upon  his 
second  term,  he  died,  sincerely  mourned  by  his  constituents, 
without  distinction  of  party,  and  by  the  people  of  Ohio  who 
had  become  familiar  with  his  history. 

Though  thus  untimely  cut  off,  he  had  lived  long  enough  to 
furnish  a  remarkable  example  of  that  feature  of  American  life 
possible  only  under  free  institutions.  He  was  a  self-made 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  55 

man.  He  was  the  architect  of  his  own  fortunes.  He  was 
born  on  a  farm  in  Ohio  in  1842.  His  parents  were  poor.  He 
was  their  chief  dependence  for  the  labor  on  the  farm.  He 
had  the  advantage  of  the  common  country  schools  of  Ohio, 
and  there  acquired  the  habit  of  study,  the  love  of  books,  and 
the  ambition  to  acquire  an  advanced  education.  At  the  age 
of  eighteen  he  entered  the  college  at  Athens,  Ohio,  but  before 
the  first  year  was  over,  a  few  days  after  the  firing  upon  Fort 
Sumter,  he  enlisted  as  a  common  soldier  in  a  three  months' 
Ohio  regiment,  the  first  feeble,  and,  in  view  of  subsequent 
events,  the  ridiculous  preparation  for  a  great  war.  Then 
only  nineteen  years  of  age,  he  proved  his  aptitude  for  military 
drill  and  discipline  and  duty.  He  demonstrated  his  courage 
in  early  conflicts  in  West  Virginia.  At  the  expiration  of  his 
term  of  enlistment,  without  returning  to  his  home,  he  enlisted 
in  a  West  Virginia  regiment  largely  composed  of  Ohio  sol 
diers  for  a  term  of  three  years. 

A  narrative  of  his  life  and  real  adventures  would  be  as  in 
teresting  as  a  romance.  I  have  heard  his  comrades  speak  of 
him  as  an  ideal  soldier,  brave  yet  cautious,  cheerful  under  the 
greatest  fatigue,  resolute  and  hopeful,  and  generally  success 
ful.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  his  qualities  as  a  soldier  soon 
gained  him  promotion.  He  became  lieutenant  in  December, 
1861,  and  by  successive  promotions  he  attained  the  command 
of  his  regiment  and  often  the  actual  command  of  a  brigade. 
He  was  brevetted  brigadier-general  at  the  close  of  the  war  for 
gallant  and  honorable  service  in  the  field.  The  only  obstacle 
in  his  way  was  his  youth,  which  on  two  occasions  delayed  his 
promotion.  It  was  this  test  of  soldierly  qualities,  this  train 
ing  of  body  and  mind,  this  struggle  for  political  convictions 
deeply  embedded  iu  the  hearts  of  both  Union  and  Confederate 
soldiers,  that  gave  to  our  civil  war  its  fierce  energy  and  de 
structive  results. 


56  Address  of  Mr.  Sherman,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

Still  the  war  could  not  be  avoided.  It  was  an  irrepressible 
conflict.  And,  next  to  the  preservation  of  the  Union  and  the 
abolition  of  slavery,  the  chief  beneficial  result  of  the  war  was 
the  respect  which  the  soldiers,  both  Union  and  Confederate, 
had  for  each  other.  Typical  soldiers  like  General  ENOCHS, 
enterprising,  brave,  and  determined,  could  perceive  and  ac 
knowledge  like  qualities  in  Confederate  soldiers,  and  could 
regret  that  human  wisdom  could  devise  no  method  of  settling 
their  differences  except  by  destructive  war,  involving  the 
death  or  disability  of  one  million  of  men  and  the  loss  of  many 
billions  of  dollars  of  property. 

When  the  honorable  military  career  of  General  ENOCHS 
closed,  he  was  but  twenty-three  years  old  and  a  brigadier- 
general  by  brevet.  His  college  life  was  closed  by  the  neces 
sity  of  earning  a  livelihood.  He  commenced  the  study  of  the 
law,  and  graduated  at  the  Cincinnati  Law  School  in  1866.  He 
soon  after  commenced  the  practice  of  law  at  Ironton,  on  the 
banks  of  the  Ohio  Eiver,  where  he  ever  since  resided.  He 
served  one  term  in  the  legislature  of  Ohio,  but,  declining 
further  service  he  devoted  himself  to  his  profession. 

In  November,  1890,  General  ENOCHS  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Fifty-second  Congress  by  a  very  large  majority;  and 
here,  as  on  the  battlefield  and  in  his  profession,  he  gained  a 
high  reputation  for  industry,  good  sense,  and  ability  of  a  high 
order.  Tbe  kindly  words  spoken  of  him  in  the  House  of  Rep 
resentatives  QII  these  resolutions,  not  only  by  his  colleagues 
from  Ohio  but  by  many  others,  is  the  best  evidence  of  the 
respect  in  which  he  was  held  by  them  after  his  brief  service 
in  that  body.  His  successor  said  of  him: 

General  ENOCHS  was  a  citizen  loved  by  his  neighbors,  honored  and 
respected  by  all;  he  was  a  philanthropist  with  a  generous  hand,  and  no 
unfortunate,  however  poor,  ever  left  his  door  without  having  been  com 
forted  by  his  generosity.  He  was  a  soldier  by  instinct,  a  stranger  to 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs,  57 

fear,  a  gallant  leader  whom  men  were  always  proud  to  follow,  aiid  whose 
time  and  talent  in  later  years  were  devoted  to  the  cause  of  his  comrades. 
History  shows  that  he  was  distinguished  in  all  the  lines  of  service  in  the 
army — in  fact,  that  he  was  one  of  the  youngest,  if  not  the  youngest, 
commandants  of  a  brigade  in  the  volunteer  service.  He  was  a  lawyer 
true  to  his  profession,  and  exhibited  an  unfaltering  zeal  for  the  success 
of  his  clients.  He  was  a  statesman  of  the  practical  type,  with  exalted 
ideas  of  the  obligations  which  public  trust  imposes.  He  was  a  patriot 
who  loved  his  country  with  a  jealous  love,  and  was  willing,  if  need  be, 
to  lay  down  his  own  life  in  defense  of  the  old  flag  and  the  principles 
which  it  represents. 

I  believe  that  this  high  eulogy  is  a  truthful,  sincere,  and 
just  tribute  to  the  character  of  General  ENOCHS.  He  left 
behind  him  his  wife  and  one  child,  the  chief  mourners,  but 
his  whole  constituency,  without  distinction  of  party,  share  in 
their  grief  and  have  expressed  in  many  ways  their  respect 
and  affection  for  their  late  representative. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  BRICE,  OF  OHIO. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  The  grim  reaper  has  been  a  busy  har 
vester  in  the  Ohio  delegation  since  my  service  began  in  this 
body,  and  it  is  my  sad  duty  to  address  my  associates  on  the 
untimely  death  of  one  of  the  most  honored  and  patriotic  sons 
whom  the  State  of  Ohio  has  sent  to  the  national  capital. 

On  July  12,  1893,  Hon.  WILLIAM  H.  ENOCHS,  representing 
the  Tenth  district  of  Ohio,  died  suddenly  at  his  home  in  Iron- 
ton.  By  his  death  there  was  taken  from  the  public  service  a 
representative  whose  whole  career,  both  public  and  private, 
evinced  the  highest  qualities  of  manhood  and  patriotism;  one 
who  walked  fearlessly  in  the  path  of  duty  in  peace  and  in 
war,  and  who  has  left  behind  him  memories  which  will  long 
be  cherished,  though  he  now  sleeps  beneath  the  sod.  It  was, 


58  Address  of  Mr.  Brice,  of  Ohio,  on  the 

perhaps,  the  most  fitting  end  that  a  hero  of  his  soldierly  mold 
should  die  in  the  service  of  the  country  for  which  he  had 
through  stormy  years  battled  and  bled. 

General  ENOCHS  was  a  native  of  Ohio,  having  been  born  in 
Noble  County,  March  29,  1842.  Reared  upon  a  farm,  his  field 
of  opportunities  was  not  widespread,  but  such  advantages  as 
he  obtained  he  wrested  mainly  from  adverse  circumstances 
by  his  own  courage  and  endurance.  His  parents  were  sturdy 
and  honest,  though  not  more  prosperous  than  was  usual  with 
the  Western  farmer  of  that  day.  From  them  he  inherited  the 
qualities  of  sterling  integrity  which  were  maintained  through 
out  his  lifetime,  a  heritage  more  potent  for  honorable  success 
than  any  that  a  wealthy  ancestry  could  bestow. 

The  conditions  that  surrounded  him  during  his  boyhood 
days  on  the  farm  were  natural  and  rational,  doubtless  con 
tributing  much  to  that  evenness  of  character  and  sturdiness 
of  purpose  which  in  later  years  marked  his  demeanor  in  the 
tumults  of  battle  as  well  as  in  the  pursuits  of  peace. 

His  early  education  was  had  in  the  common  schools;  but 
with  an  inborn  disposition  to  lift  himself  to  loftier  heights  he 
became  a  teacher,  and  from  his  savings  in  this  capacity 
secured  the  means  to  attend  college.  What  might  have  been 
the  outcome  in  this  direction  as  the  result  of  his  studious 
habits  and  his  faculty  for  application  we  can  never  know,  for 
the  call  to  arms  of  1861  turned  the  current  of  his  life  into  the 
seething  channel  of  a  bloody  conflict.  He  was  but  nineteen 
years  of  age  when  he  enlisted  as  a  private,  unconscious  that 
the  future  had  in  store  for  him  the  epaulettes  of  a  brigadier- 
general.  But  that  was  the  sequel  with  which  a  deserving 
fate  rounded  out  his  army  life.  It  was  the  pride  of  his 
friends,  though  he  was  personally  modest  concerning  the 
subject,  that  in  five  years,  including  some  of  the  hardest  cam 
paigning  of  the  war,  he  had  risen  from  a  private  through  all 


Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs.  59 

the  intermediate  grades  to  the  high  rank  and  honorable  dis 
tinction  of  brigadier-general.  There  hardly  exists  a  prouder 
military  record  than  is  contained  in  the  mere  statement  of 
that  fact,  and  it  is  made  more  conspicuous  when  it  is  recalled 
that  these  honors  came  to  him  not  by  a  succession  of  fortu 
nate  accidents  or  the  operation  of  kindly  favoritism,  but  were 
earned  on  grim  and  deadly  fields  of  battle. 

During  the  war  he  participated  in  ten  important  engage 
ments,  and  a  much  larger  number  of  minor  battles  and  skir 
mishes.  At  the  battle  of  Winchester,  near  the  close  of  the 
war,  he  received  a  well-nigh  fatal  wound,  a  bullet  from  the 
enemy  traversing  one  side  of  his  skull,  but  fortunately  not 
penetrating. 

You  must  pardon  me  if  I  have  dwelt  somewhat  at  length 
upon  the  military  achievements  of  this  admirable  soldier,  but 
the  glories  of  war  are  ever  dazzling.  In  viewing  them,  how 
ever,  the  honorable  career  of  General  ENOCHS  as  a  citizen 
and  a  legislator  has  not  been  forgotten.  Sheathing  his  sword 
when  the  turmoil  of  the  great  conflict  had  subsided,  he  pre 
pared  himself  for  the  practice  of  law,  which  thereupon  be 
came  his  chosen  profession.  After  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  he  became  known  as  a  practical  clear-headed  lawyer,  a 
reputation  which  he  not  only  sustained  but  increased  during 
the  entire  period  of  his  long  practice. 

In  18G9  the  allurements  of  politics  diverted  him  from  the 
law  for  the  time  being,  and  he  was  elected  to  the  State  legis 
lature.  The  attractions  of  that  body  evidently  did  not  fulfill 
all  his  expectations,  for  after  one  term  of  service  he  declined 
to  again  be  a  candidate  for  the  position,  and  returned  to  his 
law  office. 

In  1890  General  ENOCHS  was  nominated  and  elected  as 
a  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives  from  the  dis 
trict  in  which  he  resided,  beginning  his  active  duties  when 


60  Life  and  Character  of  William  H.  Enochs. 

the  Fifty -second  Congress  was  organized.  He  devoted 
himself  faithfully  to  the  duties  he  had  been  called  upon 
by  his  people  to  assume,  looking  after  tbe  material  inter 
ests  of  his  locality,  and  at  the  same  time  giving  studious 
attention  to  the  broader .  issues  involved  in  national  affairs. 
He  was  known  to  his  associates  as  an  earnest  and  thought 
ful  worker  in  the  committees  to  which  he  was  assigned, 
where  his  practical  qualities  were  most  valuable. 

His  services  in  the  capacity  of  a  member  of  the  House 
of  Representatives  were  pleasing  to  his  constituents,  and 
without  dissent  he  was  nominated  and  elected  to  the  pres 
ent  Congress.  It  was  not  his  fate  nor  the  fortune  of  his 
country  that  he  should  serve  out  that  trust.  A  short  time 
before  the  assembling  of  the  Fifty-third  Congress  the  hand 
of  death  lifted  him  from  earth;  and  at  his  desk,  where  on  the 
meeting  day  would  have  been  handshakings  and  reunions, 
were  found  tbe  somber  emblems  of  grief. 

Mr.  President,  in  paying  tribute  this  afternoon  to  this  dead 
soldier  and  statesman  we  are  doing  honor  to  manhood,  integ 
rity,  and  courage.  To  the  student  of  events  I  point  out  his 
proud  record  as  it  is  written  on  the  pages  of  the  history  of  his 
country.  It  is  more  eloquent  than  words  that  I  may  speak; 
more  lasting  than  praises  launched  upon  the  echoes  of  this 
Chamber. 

Mr.  SHERMAN.  As  a  further  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory 
of  my  late  colleague  in  the  House  of  Representatives,  I  move 
that  the  Senate  do  now  adjourn. 

The  motion  was  unanimously  agreed  to;  and  (at  five  o'clock 
and  fifteen  minutes  p.  in.)  the  Senate  adjourned  until  to-mor 
row,  Friday,  April  20,  1894,  at  twelve  o'clock  in. 


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